Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1954.225.0101Description
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 with a heavy duty crane removing debris from the wreckage pile. Workmen working on the pile in foreground left.
Written on the back in black ink: "9/12/23". In pencil: "4".
Wreck occurred in the Rawlins, WY. Railyard.
Paper yellowed. Lower corners bent, emulsion cracked; slight damage to other corners. Vertical crease left of center-emulsion cracked.
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