Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1954.225.0090Description
Train wreck in front of Depot, Brakeman was killed.
Update 4/2010: Black and white print. Snapshot. Image of the aftermath of a train wreck where two trains crashed head-on. Engine x5003 and Engine 4464 were involved. Workmen in foreground amid the debris surveying the damage.
Written on back in black ink: "9/12/23".
Wreck occurred in the Rawlins, Wy. Railyard.
Back soiled; paper slightly yellowed. Upper right corner bent-emulsion cracked; slight damage to other corners. Emulsion cracked in upper left and lower right. Slightly soiled.
NOTE: Runaway train x5003 was stopped by placing the switch engine 4464 on the track in front of it and allowing the resulting crash to stop the train. (Rans Baker-Historian).Collection
Photograph Collection