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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0114]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Purcell firemen and railroad workers spray down an errant switch engine after it was purposely derailed following a 35-mile unmanned run from Oklahoma City."
Date: November 27, 1978
Creator: Reed, Monty
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0109]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Rock Island Twin-Star Rocket passenger was derailed in the yards here early Tuesday morning injuring four of the 96 passengers, one seriously."
Date: June 23, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0098]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Some of the nine Rock Island freight cars lost their wheels in a mishap Sunday when they overturned as 14 cars of the train derailed east of Hydro Sunday."
Date: July 19, 1976
Creator: Carter, Randy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0097]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Derailed cars litter track after 14 derailed Sunday morning about five miles east of Hydro in Caddo County."
Date: July 19, 1976
Creator: Carter, Randy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0124]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smashed new automobiles lie strewn Sunday around the wreckage of a Frisco train that derailed near the south- easterner Oklahoma town of Troy."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0096]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Toppled tanks derailed near Idabel Friday were being cleared from railroad tracks Friday night and oil spilling from the tank cars was flowing into trenches made by bulldozers."
Date: April 17, 1976
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0099]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SHADY POINT --- Hurriedly evacuated residents of this tiny LeFlore County town trickled back to their homes Thursday after a chemical laden train slithered off the tracks in pre-dawn darkness and exploded into fire."
Date: October 15, 1976
Creator: McKay, Amon
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0104]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Several new trucks lie scattered by the tracks near Stringtown in the southeastern part of Oklahoma following the derailment of 13 cars of an 83-car train Friday."
Date: July 2, 1979
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0123]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Derailed Frisco Railway cars lie battered and crumpled like broken matchsticks just north of Troy in Johnston county after a 40-car train slipped off the tracks Saturday afternoon."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: Laughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0121]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "No people were injured in the derailment, but a number of new automobiles were casualties in the accident."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0122]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Way workers worked Sunday and continued today to clear wreckage and repair the tracks that are parallel to SH 12."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0126]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ruptured Frisco rail cars are piled helter-skelter beside the track at the site of a spectacular derailment in Johnston County."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0120]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Boxcars of Frisco train which derailed late Saturday afternoon sprawl along track just north of Troy in east central Johnston County."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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