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Southern Pacific, Lander, Calif. Head-on collision, Sept. 9, 1892

  • jamica1 said:
    Any injuries/deaths?
  • pleasant yarn said:
    A railroad crash and not a small one, could be a derailment. However the Sant Fe reefer with additional center ice hatches, this is a rarely seen car! And a really good idea for scratchbuilding a new model. See also my website us-modelsof1900.de . Sorry, it's a head end collision.
  • garagehero2 said:
    One of the trains was made up of Santa Fe refrigerator cars. More photos can be seen on page 66 of Robert C. Reed’s, TRAIN WRECKS, A Pictorial History of Accidents on The Main Line.

Trepassey Bay -- U.S. naval ships (LOC)

  • TVL1970 said:
    US Navy ships in Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland there to support the Curtiss NC flying boats' transatlantic attempt. They are from front to back, (still in wartime dazzle camouflage) the tanker USS Hisko (ID-1953), USS Upshur (DD-144) (adjacent to Hisko), USS Aroostook (ID-1256), and USS Prairie (AD-5). See: www.navsource.org/archives/11/0603.htm www.navsource.org/archives/09/03/0305.htm
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks TVL1970, we'll add this information to the catalog record.

Railroad bridge over the Umpqua River at Reedsport, Oregon

  • Rob Ketcherside said:
    This is the Umpqua River Bridge, a swing bridge built in 1914 by the Southern Pacific and currently the Coos Bay Line of the Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad. Here's an aerial map. According to Wikipedia, this section of track has been out of use for a couple of years because of necessary tunnel repairs. Today: