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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1014]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Three persons were injured when a car battered this traffic signal light pole from its pedestal on Northwest Highway at Independence and it struck another auto early Sunday."
Date: February 19, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0301]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A wide trench dug for a drainage pipeline project cuts downtown Chickasha in half as crews wait for warmer weather to repair the city's main street. The 54-inch line connects to a 108-inch line several blocks away in a system designed to feed into nearby Line Creek. the $366,000-project was approved by voters to provide a drain for rainwater that frequently floods Chickasha businesses."
Date: February 7, 1979
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0124]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smashed new automobiles lie strewn Sunday around the wreckage of a Frisco train that derailed near the south- easterner Oklahoma town of Troy."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0441]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "It's a known fact that by Friday it's hard for everybody to get over the humps of workaday life, and this semi-rig joined the club with a literal crunch this morning."
Date: February 16, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0663]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CLOSE CALL, This car veered out of control and almost toppled off a bridge on a county road near the town of Geronimo in Comanche County. It managed to get back on the road with a helping hand from a wrecker truck."
Date: February 28, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0454]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This overturned truck was testimony today to what happens when a 47,000-pound load of steel pipe shifts at a street corner."
Date: February 27, 1979
Creator: Vahlberg, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0440]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Slick roadways apparently betrayed the driver of this 18-wheeler which slid off the highway Thursday near the I-40 Byers Avenue overpass."
Date: February 9, 1979
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1026]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This is just part of the wildly tangled, smoke-shrouded scene where a car explosion set off a pileup involving 20 vehicles."
Date: February 14, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1025]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A gutted car burst into flames on U.S. 62 this morning, triggering a massive chain-reaction crash among trucks and cars which slowed to avoid it."
Date: February 14, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0123]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Derailed Frisco Railway cars lie battered and crumpled like broken matchsticks just north of Troy in Johnston county after a 40-car train slipped off the tracks Saturday afternoon."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: Laughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1009]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rock Island work crews attempt this morning to straighten one of eight cars of a freight which derailed Sunday near NW 6 and Meridian."
Date: February 7, 1979
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0121]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "No people were injured in the derailment, but a number of new automobiles were casualties in the accident."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0122]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Way workers worked Sunday and continued today to clear wreckage and repair the tracks that are parallel to SH 12."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0126]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ruptured Frisco rail cars are piled helter-skelter beside the track at the site of a spectacular derailment in Johnston County."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0120]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Boxcars of Frisco train which derailed late Saturday afternoon sprawl along track just north of Troy in east central Johnston County."
Date: February 26, 1979
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0439]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Truck driver Terry Lee Townsell apparently didn't see a corner clearance sign before he attempted to scoot under a rail overpass in the 2400 block of NE 10 in Oklahoma City Wednesday morning."
Date: February 22, 1979
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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