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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0022]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Derailed cars containing caustic soda, left, and gasoline await cautious removal. Four cars of a south bound Santa Fe freight train derailed near NE 122 and Broadway early Saturday, disrupting rail traffic on the road's main north-south line through Oklahoma."
Date: March 29, 1969
Creator: Wood, Tony
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0004]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wild Boxcar Rams Train at City Station. A wild freight car, mis-switched in the Santa Fe station yard here Saturday morning, plowed into the side of two Pullman cars entering the station on elevated tracks from the south."
Date: January 15, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0024]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WRECKAGE IS CLEARED from the Santa Fe Railroad main line at NW 71 and Shartel with the aid of two railroad cranes Saturday. The railroad's right of way was blocked Friday when 28 cars of a 123-car train were derailed."
Date: August 6, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0021]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Cars from a derailed NW 2 street near Classen from 2 a.m. today until shortly before noon when a maintenance crew moved the cars back on the tracks."
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0018]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tank car loaded with 32,600 gallons of liquid butane lies wedged under two hopper cars after a derailment Sunday. The head of a severed telephone pole dangles from its wire overhead."
Date: April 3, 1971
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0017]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SPECIAL EQUIPMENT, cranes and engines, were pressed into service when 18 cars of a Rock Island Lines freight train derailed in the far west part of the city."
Date: April 4, 1971
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0005]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wreckage blocked the Frisco Railroad right-of-way Monday as workers labored to clear a 13 car derailment that sent one man to the hospital and injured four others."
Date: April 20, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0014]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Toppled tanker leaks gasoline after rolling into ditch. A railroad tank car loaded with high octane gasoline overturned and began leaking today in the 4300 block Newcastle Road, after its brakes gave away and three following cars forced it past the safety siding device."
Date: January 12, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0013]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Overturned tank car loaded with high octane gasoline lies disabled beside Frisco tracks in the 4300 block Newcastle road, where it was derailed in a brake failure at 7 a.m. today."
Date: January 12, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0031]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Frisco railroad officials Monday expected to have all the 13 cars, which were derailed Sunday, back on the track and operating Monday night."
Date: December 31, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0003]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "GOUGED ASPHALT is cleared Monday from the intersection of Sheridan and Walnut after a Rock Island locomotive derailed."
Date: December 29, 1975
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0015]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Stacked boxcars block main Rock Island line near the Oklahoma City fairgrounds this morning after 27 cars of an 86-car eastbound freight train derailed shortly after midnight."
Date: May 3, 1973
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0030]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Capable of picking up a boxcar as though it was a matchbox, this giant 250-ton crane was brought here Monday to clear away wreckage following a Frisco derailment at SW 25 and Grand Boulevard."
Date: December 31, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0007]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Derailed cars block crossing on NE 16. Six cars of a 13-car Katy freight train derailed early Monday in northeast Oklahoma City, blocking traffic across NE 16 for several hours."
Date: September 10, 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0020]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-eight cars of a Purcell bound Santa Fe freight train were derailed shortly before 8 a.m. Friday just south of NW 71 and Shartel."
Date: August 5, 1960
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0025]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THE CULPRIT in a 10-car Santa Fe freight derailment near the intersection of Britton Road and Western Avenue Thursday night was this overheated journal, being examined by railroad agent W. A. Badley, 3147 SW 20."
Date: August 25, 1960
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0011]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A jumbled mass of track, wheat and boxcars was left Thursday night when a Santa Fe train was derailed. Ten cars of a Santa Fe Freight train, bearing an estimated 600 tons of wheat, overturned immediately east of the Britton Road-Western Ave. intersection Thursday night."
Date: August 25, 1960
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0019]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Thirty tons of wayward weight lies temporarily out of service near NE 4 and Bryant, where the empty refrigerator car and a Santa Fe engine were derailed at 8:30 p.m."
Date: April 10, 1971
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0006]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is what happened when two sand gondolas lost their balance and toppled off the Santa Fe elevated track between Fifth and Sixth streets Thursday morning."
Date: April 27, 1933
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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