Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1954.225.0104Description
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 working to remove the remains of one of the engines. Workmen in foreground center.
Written on back in black ink: "9/12/23". In pencil: "4".
Wreck occurred in the Rawlins, WY. Railyard.
Paper yellowed. Slightly soiled. Lower left corner bent and torn. Emulsion cracked. Light diagonal crease on lower half of image. 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