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[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.B0052.0900]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "THIS DEMOLISHED automobile carried an Oklahoma City man to his death east of the city early Tuesday morning. George O. Enger, 59, of 615 NW 52, a Tinker field industrial auditor, died in Mercy hospital two hours after his late model car was struck by a Rock Island passenger train at the Air Depot road crossing." Train Rains, Kills Cityan, State Traffic Deaths 1956 to date, 623: December, 7 1955 to date, 537; … more
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0055]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "THIS 2-TON FREIGHT COMPANY TRUCK came out second-best in an argument with a Rock Island freight engine Thursday in the 800 block SW 3."
Date: February 2, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
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.B0053.0326]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Traffic is going through but wrecking crews Monday were still digging into debris of freight train derailment east of Goodwell in the Panhandle."
Date: May 22, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0875]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "BILLY RAY WOODS, 27, Stratford, was injured seriously Thursday morning when his farm truck, top photo, was struck by a Frisco railroad passenger train 1 1/2 miles east of Wheatland. Wood was driving on a private road leading to a fertilizer plant when he crossed the tracks in front of the train. The impact knocked Wood from his truck and the cab was carried 360 feet by the train. Wood was taken to Mercy hospital suffer… more
Date: March 8, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0057]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The driver of a pickup truck was killed instantly Tuesday afternoon in a crash with a Rock Island passenger train at W California and Villa."
Date: January 10, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0056]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The driver of a pickup truck was killed instantly Tuesday afternoon in a crash with a Rock Island passenger train at W California and Villa avenues."
Date: January 10, 1956
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0054]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A SWITCH TRAIN put the squeeze on this pick-up at NW 4 and Indiana Friday night, but a passing motorist freed two occupants by pulling off the windshield."
Date: June 30, 1956
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1004.0443]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ot's not as big as a real one, but it works the same way, and Ben Tillman, 1716 NE 51, looks after the little train at the Lincoln Park zoo just as he did the big engines he worked on for years."
Date: August 24, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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