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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0170]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Train derailment in southwest Oklahoma Friday morning forced grain elevator operators to dump up to 150,000 bushels of wheat on the ground until the track was cleared Saturday and boxcars moving in to Duke and Victory to pick up wheat for market."
Date: June 8, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0174]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Jumbled freight cars litter the area around the Wilburton train depot Friday, where 20 cars of an eastbound, 71-car Rock Island Railroad freight train derailed."
Date: June 7, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0169]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Train derailment in southwest Oklahoma Friday morning forced grain elevator operators to dump up to 150,000 bushels of wheat on the ground until the track was cleared Saturday and boxcars moving in to Duke and Victory to pick up wheat for market."
Date: June 8, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0075]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Derailed on a portion of track in Nicoma Park Friday afternoon were a Rock Island Railroad freight car, caboose and scale test car."
Date: March 1, 1969
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0601]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Someone's bridge is falling down - or so it seemed Tuesday when a truck loaded with wooden support beams dumped its load across the westbound lane on Northwest Expressway east of Merdian Ave. Driver Joe Neash, Harrah, said the truck jacknifed as he attempted a u-turn, toppling the load and blocking traffic for nearly an hour. Neash said no one was hurt in the incident - "just my pride."
Date: June 3, 1969
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9334]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Devastation in immediate vicinity of blasts is depicted by twisted railroad track and debris remaining of rail cars, above. Wrecked homes two blocks away are depicted above left, while force of explosion is illustrated above right by smashed boxcar, one of five destroyed in blast. (O-8-5-69) Blasted track and box car are shown after explosions."
Date: August 3, 1969
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0600]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a RV with its front in a creek/river, a wrecker at top left attached to the rv with another line from a different wrecked at the front door, many people gathered around on the road, and more.)"
Date: July 12, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9329]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "We were very, every fortunate and I thank the good Lord more people weren't killed," a Noel firemen who witnessed a disastrous explosion in this Oklahoma-border community said Sunday. Harold Mauck watched a train car blow up 200 yards from his fire truck at 4 a.m. Sunday. it was "a huge orange-red mushroom cloud of smoke, fire and flying debris," he said. The blast - the second and most powerful of two - leveled numerous… more
Date: August 3, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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