Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1954.225.0097Description
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. At left workmen are cleaning up the cargo from a smashed box car that is lying on its side. Center is the debris, left of the two engines. men at right looking at debris pile.
Written on back in black ink: "9/12/23".
Wreck occurred in the Rawlins, Wy. Railyard.
Paper yellowed. Upper left corner bent-emulsion cracked, slight damage to other corners. Emulsion cracked at center bottom and lower left. Surface scratched.
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