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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0127]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mangled cars of a Rock Island freight train lie in four Mile Creek near downtown El Reno Wednesday after derailing and destroying the railroad bridge as they plunged into the creek."
Date: November 20, 1974
Creator: Giudice, Gary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0156]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A tank car loaded with petroleum naptha over turned today in a downtown railroad yard, forcing authorities to cordon off the area after leaks developed."
Date: June 6, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0140]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three cars of a 30-car eastbound Rock Island freight train plunged 30 feet off an old wooden railroad bridge 1/2 mile east of Weatherford around 3:30 a.m. Sunday."
Date: November 27, 1972
Creator: Artman, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0155]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Workmen were beginning salvage operations today after 12 cars of a 106-car Rock Island freight train derailed late Sunday near NE 23 and Hiwassee Road in Choctaw."
Date: October 8, 1973
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0141]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tangled wreckage and demolished rails resulted when more that 20 box cars of a 110-car Frisco freight train jumped the tracks four miles east of Altus early Tuesday morning."
Date: December 26, 1972
Creator: Long, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0150]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Loaded boxcars overturned Wednesday morning as a freight train and seven stray boxcars rammed together near Olustee killing four Frisco crewmen."
Date: June 4, 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0143]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Burning freight cars of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas line threatened to spread to a tank car filled with lethal chlorine gas, following a derailment on a trestle near Atoka Friday."
Date: June 30, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0157]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A 190,000-pound capacity tank car loaded with flammable liquid naphtha lies overturned Wednesday off the Santa Fe main line in the 800 block of S Santa Fe."
Date: June 6, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0137]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Rock Island crews and officials were pushing today for a 3 p.m. completion of repairs to a bridge trestle east of Weatherford where eight cars of a freight train piled up Sunday, knocking out the bridge and blocking a county road below."
Date: November 27, 1972
Creator: Artman, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0142]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A tank car filled with potentially deadly chlorine gas and five other cars of an MKT freight derailed and burst into flames this morning on a bridge across a creek north of Atoka."
Date: June 30, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0148]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Four Oklahoma City area trainmen were killed early today when 25 cars and two engines of a Frisco freight were twisted into a tangled mass of wreckage as the train rammed into seven boxcars which had rolled onto the main line from a siding at Olustee."
Date: June 3, 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0144]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty cars of a Santa Fe freight train, some loaded with fertilizer chemicals and petroleum products, piled up Sunday in a massive derailment two miles south of Guthrie."
Date: January 24, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0133]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twisted wreckage of freight cars involved in a Santa Fe derailment two miles south of Guthrie Sunday blocked the main line and brought a halt to all train traffic."
Date: January 24, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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