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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0284]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "16 Freight Cars Pile Up in Wreck Near Atoka-- One way traffic was flowing through this littered wreckage of a Missouri-Kansas-Texas freight train near Atoka Saturday and trainmen hoped to have the mass of cars clear of the tracks Saturday afternoon."
Date: July 10, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0293]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Freight Cracks Up-- Frisco wrecking crews worked for five hours Thursday removing the body of H. Frank Murphy, 51, Sherman, Texas, engineer of the southbound freight train pictured above which was wrecked two miles north of Scullin in Murray county."
Date: February 7, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0297]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is a general view of the railroad accident at Armstrong Wednesday in which the Texas Special of the M-K-T and a long freight train sideswiped. The engineer of the Special died and five others were hurt in the wreck, three seriously."
Date: April 3, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0283]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State Freight Crash-- Five trainmen emerged unscathed, except for slight bruises and scratches, from this tumbled wreckage of two Frisco locomotives following a collision early Wednesday near Afton."
Date: February 5, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0295]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cattle Train Wrecked-- A number of cattle headed for Kansas City were killed in a Thursday night wreck at Fargo, Ellis county, when a Santa Fe freight was wrecked in front of the depot."
Date: April 8, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0296]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The fine animal lying beside the track in the picture just above, a 1,200 pound Hereford Bull, derailed "The Texas Chief," crack Santa Fe passenger train, late Friday three miles north of Ardmore"
Date: July 11, 1953
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0294]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Loss of Cattle Heavy as Fargo Wreck Piles Cars Around Station-- An estimated 100 head of cattle were killed when nine cars of 125-car Santa Fe train jumped the track and pile up in front of the railroad station late Thursday at Fargo."
Date: April 7, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0282]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State Freights Crash-- Five trainmen emerged unscathed, except for slight bruises and scratches, from this tumbled wreckage of two Frisco locomotives following a collision early Wednesday near Afton."
Date: February 5, 1947
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0288]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SCRAMBLED GRAVEL CARS lie along the belt line of the Rock Island railroad in El Reno after six cars were thrown from the tracks Sunday afternoon. H.G. Dennis, division superintendent said the wreck occurred from a journal failure on one of the cars in an 81-car train."
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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