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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.B0053.0022]

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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0158]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Railroad recovery specialist maneuver a timber into place as the acid filled tank looms behind them like some unexploded bomb."
Date: April 5, 1969
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0923]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Death Scene is examined by Trooper Don Graham, Tulsa, after this car was mangled at the railroad crossing Monday. H.F. Bernard, 53, Jenks, was killed in the crash with a freight train."
Date: February 10, 1964
Creator: Cuthins, Jim Nerd
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1190]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crews work to replace track uprooted Tuesday when a Frisco freight train derailed at the entrance to the switching yards near SE 15 and I-35. Authorities this morning were still investigating the cause of the accident, which derailed five cars and closed the Frisco mainline into Oklahoma City for more than six hours."
Date: April 8, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0935]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Train crewman surveys the distance between train in the background and crime bureau auto in foreground. A state crime bureau agent was killed Tuesday morning when his car slammed into the side of a Rock Island train at about NW 5 and Portland, west of the State Fairgrounds Arena. The victim was Cliff Roberts, about 41. His southbound car struck the side of the second diesel locomotive pulling the California-bou… more
Date: March 14, 1967
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."
Date: August 9, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1192]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Off the Track Rock Island Railroad officials inspect damage to two freight cars which derailed Monday during low-speed switching operations near NW 8 and Villa. The cars were elevated back to the tracks after about three hours, officials said."
Date: August 22, 1978
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0198]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "FLETCHER-- Twenty cars of an east bound Frisco freight train were piled up in a derailment at the south edge of Fletcher about 5:30 AM Friday."
Date: October 15, 1965
Creator: Lucas, Jim
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
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
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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