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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0935]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Train crewman surveys the distance between train in the background and crime bureau auto in foreground. A state crime bureau agent was killed Tuesday morning when his car slammed into the side of a Rock Island train at about NW 5 and Portland, west of the State Fairgrounds Arena. The victim was Cliff Roberts, about 41. His southbound car struck the side of the second diesel locomotive pulling the California-bou… more
Date: March 14, 1967
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0033]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "ERRANT FREIGHT CAR jumped its rails at the crossing of the NE 50 detour east of Santa Fe Tuesday afternoon and caused a massive traffic jam during rush hour traffic."
Date: September 14, 1965
Creator: Miller, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0868]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "George Cleveland Lawson, 65, 729 N. Robinson, driving south was hit by a Frisco Switch crew, Car destroyed."
Date: February 14, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
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.B0052.0872]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO RIBS AND ONE CAR, George Cleveland Lawson, 65, of 729 N Robinson, had a narrow escape Tuesday night when his automobile collided with a switching Frisco freight car in the 5800 block S MacArthur. Lawson suffered two broken ribs. His automobile was demolished. C.A. Madlow, Frisco engineer, told J. W. Rankin and H. L. Loyd, police accident investigators, the engine was pushing the freight car when the accid… more
Date: February 14, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0063]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "LUCKY DRIVER Leonard Turner looks over damage done to his milk truck by a Rock Island freight train about 7 a,m. Tuesday in the 500 block N Ann Arbor."
Date: February 14, 1967
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0874]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 121 car freight train killed an Oklahoman City father and son Thursday morning as it smashed their 1950 pickup truck into junk in a collisions in the 400 block N Portland. Dead were: Donald Eugene Albee, 52 of 108 SW 34, and Donald Eugene Albee Jr., 26, of 717 SW 56."
Date: December 14, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0877]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 121 car freight train killed on Oklahoma City father and son Thursday morning as it smashed their 1950 pickup truck into junk in a collision in the 400 block N Portland. Donald Eugene Albee, 52, of 108 SW 34, Donald Eugene Albee Jr., 26, of 717 SW 56."
Date: December 14, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0967]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEATH CAR is little more than crumpled metal Friday afternoon after it crashed into a freight train on NE 36 about two miles east of I-35 in Midwest City. James Carter Mays, 2317 NE 19, the driver, was dead on arrival at Midwest City Memorial Hospital shortly after 12:30 p.m. Ralph Black, a wrecker service employee, is shown sweeping up broken glass."
Date: January 14, 1972
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0506]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Force of the crash of the southbound Rock Island Texas Rocket and a waiting freight train near Enid Wednesday is shown here."
Date: April 14, 1948
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0405.0433]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Harold Moore of Oklahoma City proudly displays his train collection during the first Oklahoma City Train Show at the Ramada Inn Central earlier this week."
Date: November 14, 1981
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0259]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Transportation is making long strides twoard more comfort and convenience. This is a highly modernistic railroad train, built by automotive manufacturer General Motors. It will be in OKC this week at the Frisco-Rock Island Station, open to the public from 2-9 p.m. for three days. The "Train of Tomorrow" includes a 2,000 horsepower Diesel-electric locomotive."
Date: March 14, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0264]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The observation-lounge car is the deluxe end of the train. It has four different levels, this one being the topmost refreshment bar with wall seats, chairs, and tables. (Train of Tomorrow)"
Date: March 14, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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