This is a black and white photograph of man over looking wreckage after a train wreck. This train wreck was under a bridge of US 36 between 104th Ave and the Broomfield exit.
Transcribed on the back of the print, it reads; "On August 2, two trains collided in a head-on, 5 crew members were killed. A Burlington Northern Railroad supervisor surveys the wreckage from one of two turnpike bridges that were damaged from the fire caused by the collision."
Collection
Permanent Collection
Made/Created
Artist
David Jennings
Date made
1985 - 1985
Notes
Date: 1985/08/02
Copy/Orig/Other: Original
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Railroad accidents, Railroads, News photography
Search Terms
Burlington Northern Railroad Company
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
David Jennings
Provenance
Notes
This image was published in the Denver Sentinel Newspaper shortly after crash.
It was also entered into the National Press Photographers Association contest in 1986, but did not place.
