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207 photos and 2 illustrations tagged disasters, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• debris
• bridgefailures
• railroadbridges
• scotland
• rivertay
• dundee
• railway
• tay
• railwaybridge
• taybridgedisaster
• photographicprints
• organization:library=nationallibraryofscotland
• owner:name=nationallibraryofscotland
• nls:source=solrxml
• nls:dodprojectid=74466699
• tayfirthof
• taybridgedisasterdundeescotland1879
• damage
• bridgesbuiltworks
• pierssupportingelements
• ruins
• salvage
• southwest
• texas

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• National Library of Scotland 91 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 37 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 31 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 24 photos & illustrations
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 8 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 5 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 4 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 2 photos & illustrations
• Nasjonalbiblioteket 1 photo / illustration
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• Library Company of Philadelphia 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Sinkhole - Winter Park

from Florida Memory

• kenDollsGT said:

  At first I thought it was a site For a Pool

View from south end of gap

from National Library of Scotland

• g_ponsonby said:

  A fascinating set of views. I know the engineer Bouch was well-known for his lightweight bridges on other railways, but this group of photos gives a graphic impression of the fragility of the first Tay Bridge.

• night0wl07 said:

  The bridge collapsed in a storm the night of the 28th December 1879. Unfortunately a train was on it at the time and the 75 passengers and crew on board were killed.

• Chris Hunt said:

  If only they'd supported it with buttresses: www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-tay-bridge-disaster

Large girders, Tay Bridge

from National Library of Scotland

• Les Chatfield said:

  This picture is taken within the "HIgh Girders" the track as you can see runs within the girders. The track was positioned above the approach girders leading to this point.

• lanswyfte said:

  I'm sorry, but isn't the date incorrect? If this photo truly was taken before the collapse, then it couldn't have been taken at any time after December 28, 1879.