Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1954.225.0100Description
Train wreck in front of Depot, Brakeman was killed.
Update 4/2010: Black and white print. Snapshot. Image from elevation of the aftermath of a train wreck showing a pile of overturned broken and nearly vertical box cars with two engines in center. Buildings and hills in background. Workmen at right clearing debris. Boxcar cleared of contents at center.
Written on back in black ink: "9/12/23".
Wreck occurred in the Rawlins, Wy. Railyard.
Paper yellowed. Back soiled. Slight corner damage. Emulsion slightly dented and scratched. Finger print in lower right.
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