Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1954.225.0092Description
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 engines crashed head-on. Engine x5003 and Engine 4464 involved. Several people including a woman moving in foreground surveying the debris and damage.
Written on back in black ink: "9/12/23."
Wreck took place in the Rawlins, WY. Railyard.
Paper yellowed, back slightly soiled. Upper right corner bent, emulsion cracked; slight damage to other corners.
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