Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1954.225.0105Description
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 showing the overturned coal cars debris, engine and box car. Rails and people in foreground. Hills in background.
Written on back in black ink: "9/12/23."
Wreck occurred in the Rawlins, Wy. Railyard.
Paper slightly yellowed; back soiled. Upper right and both left corners bent-emulsion cracked; slight damage to other corner. Image 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