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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0258]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "New track needed here. A fast Frisco freight derailed 29 cars south of Troy Wednesday morning and the resulting pile up left the track looking like an old, worn out pretzel."
Date: February 12, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0261]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Boxcar Pileup---This shows some of the 21 freight cars which piled up during a derailment of a Missouri Pacific train between Sallisaw and Muldrow about 8:50 p.m. Sunday."
Date: June 26, 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0276]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wreckage piled on the Santa Fe tracks at Woodward Monday when an eastbound Santa Fe train was derailed. The lead car of the 36 derailed freight cars, many loaded with potash, stopped about 10 feet short of the Al Ackley home near the right of way."
Date: February 19, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0274]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "36 FREIGHT CARS PILE-UP NEAR HOUSE - Derailment Too Close For Comfort---- "I saw the cars coming and I just knew one was going right through the house." This was the reaction of Mrs. Al Ackley, whose backyard was suddenly full of jammed-up freight cars about 8:40 a.m. Monday in a Santa Fe derailment"
Date: February 19, 1962
Creator: Ivy Coffey / Photographer Unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0265]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "TWISTED RAILS AND WRECKAGE blocked the Santa Fe railroad's main Chicago-Texas line at Red Rock Monday after an 111-car freight derailed Sunday"
Date: June 19, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0266]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THIS DERAILED FRISCO WHEAT TRAIN still stood three miles north of Rocky Wednesday morning after it left the tracks Tuesday due to a burned out journal box."
Date: June 14, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0273]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TUMBLED LIKE MATCH STICKS, 36 cars of a Santa Fe freight train were derailed in Woodward Monday, closing the line temporarily, as well as the street, above."
Date: February 19, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0254]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Six Rock Island railroad trainmen were injured early Friday morning when these two freight trains collided six miles northwest of Bridgeport."
Date: June 26, 1959
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0259]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "DERAILED Wednesday near Troy, a Frisco freight train piled 29 cars in a heap of scrap, tore up 200 yards of track, and knocked down telegraph poles and lines along the right-of-way."
Date: December 24, 1959
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0270]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Butane-fed flames roared for hours Tuesday, after the cars of a 34-car Rock Island freight train were derailed at a washed out culvert near Geary."
Date: October 18, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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