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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0887]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A TWISTED AND CHARRED MASS of metal remained after this 1955 model auto crashed into the fourth unit of a four-unit diesel engine of the Dallas section of the Santa Fe's Texas Chief Friday at the Memorial road crossing. The driver, A. Poyntz Haskins, Dallas, Texas, insurance man, was thrown out of the car and his body was charred by the blazing auto." STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS 1956 to date, 360; July, 60 1955 to da… more
Date: January 27, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
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.B0053.0137]

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.B0052.1191]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Train Derails, Spilling Corn, Seven cars of a 95-car freight derailed on the Rock Island main line just south of downtown Oklahoma City Wednesday night, spilling an ocean of corn kernels by the tracks. Six of the seven cars, all of which were apparently loaded with corn, tumbled off the rail bed after gouging up 200 feet of track."
Date: January 27, 1977
Creator: Southerland, Paul
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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318B.0252]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Alfonso Jackson (Al) Jennings, train robber, ex-convict, lawyer, lecturer, evangelist, politician, movie celebrity and chicken rancher who hated killing chickens, is dead at 98."
Date: December 27, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6149]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Unusual Sidewalk scene was result Thursday morning of a collision at NW 6 and Robinson in which two drivers and a pedestrain were injured. One of the cars spun on to the sidewalk striking the pedestrian, Quincy M. Green, 44, as he walked south on Robinson. Greem suffered injuries to his right leg, left elbow and head. The driver of one car, Ross C. Tomberlin, 46, of 2904 NW 16, suffered a serious head injury and the … more
Date: August 27, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0612]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A real cliff-hanger Tuesday in Oklahoma City was this tractor-trailer which narrowly missed going over the bridge railing on I. H. 35 near the Tinker Diagonal. Highway patrol trooper Mike Lapuzza said the east-bound vehicle apparently slammed into the railing about 4:30 a.m. Lapuzza said the driver was uninjured, but it was several hours before the roadway was cleared."
Date: September 27, 1966
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1344.0463]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jim Dixon of northwest Oklahoma City chats with great-granddaughter Alicia Bone during a leisurely wagon trip ride along rural Oklahoma rides."
Date: April 27, 1984
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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