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[Photograph 2012.201.B0293.0134]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mangled shoe marks the site where 51-year-old Arkie H. Davis, 5 S. Allen, died under the wheels of a freight train at Villa and Reno early Saturday morning."
Date: May 22, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0269]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nineteen wheat laden cars went off the Frisco railroad June 17, four miles south of Rocky, Oklahoma. They were part of a train headed for Enid, Oklahoma. No one was injured."
Date: June 17, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0957.0498]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harley Tucker, left, and Walter Peterson stare down the track saturday as the nostagia of a bygone era lured model train enthusiasts to the 1985 OKC Train Show."
Date: November 10, 1985
Creator: Howell, Paul S.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1190.0619]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Negotiations Are Under Way between the city of Snyder and the Frisco Railway to deed the threestory depot building where Gene Autry was once depot agent over to the city. Snyder plans to make restoration of the old depot ots Bicentennial project."
Date: November 18, 1974
Creator: Long, Paul
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.B0052.1192]

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.B0052.0954]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Auto Driver Crashes Into Train, Only Complaint---a Headache. George Aebischer's car was ruined this morning, but he considers himself the luckiest man among all the Oklahoma Cityans who sweated and suffered on the city's glassy streets. He rode his sliding auto into a freight train and walked away with nothing more than a headache. "That's as close as I ever want to come to dying." Aebischer said, as he surveye… more
Date: January 5, 1973
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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