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Harrison, NY Train Wreck

from George Eastman Museum

  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • Lucky Activity said:
    interesting...
  • Julie Lyn said:
    Ah, rubbernecking... then as now.
  • Howard Smith said:
    It amazes me how much work they put into getting a shot in those days. Can't get enough of these old black and white shots of history.
  • technogeo said:
    This would have made an amazing stereoview!
  • Basoomj ET said:
    really nice and exciting !

Harrison, NY Train Wreck

from George Eastman Museum

  • laney maxwell said:
    i almost missed how incredible this is
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    I think there is little doubt that this train wreck took place in Garrison, NY, on October 24, 1897 -- not Harrison, New York.

    "A horrible train wreck occurred at Garrison on the Great Hudson River Railway on October 24, 1897, killing 20 people." -- Wikipedia

    The New York Public Library Digital Gallery also maintains a collection of William M. Van der Weyde's photographs of this train wreck. Their collection identifies each photograph, twice, as "Garrison, New York" (includes identification taken from mountings).

    This photograph, above, is identified as, "Overturned train car with broken windows" -- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
    Printed on mounting: "Garrison, NY railroad wreck"

    Garrison, New York, is located directly across the Hudson River from the United States Military Academy at West Point. A couple of contemporary photographs, below, depict railroad trains passing through Garrison. This may allow you to see how similar the river bank landscape is in the train-wreck photographs to that of the Hudson River Valley.

    Harrison, New York, on the other hand,is a small land-locked community in Westchester County (and the only community close to Long Island Sound without access to the water).

    "A Metro-North train heads north on Constitution Island, across the river from West Point and just north of Garrison, New York" by Steve Ostrowski
    Metro-North train


    "Garrison, NY Train Station" by Daniel Case
    Garrison, NY Train Station

    Of course, there's only one letter difference between these two locations.

Algerian soldiers (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Art Siegel said:
    More photos of them, all shot at train stations: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/algerian/
  • Aoures said:
    My grandpa could be among them. ;)
  • OMAR-MALO said:
    me to my friend
  • Aoures said:
    Yep, my grand father talked about the battle of Verdun as something that changed his life. Omar, maybe yours was at Verdun as well, you never know; they could have been buddies in some forsaken trench, ducking from German snippers and waiting for that dreaded whistle to charge ahead only to be met with mustard gas and machine guns.
  • Claudia3384 said:
    My grandfather, (mon grandpere) was a French officer who was raised in Algeria and led French Algerian troops at Verdun. They fought there 3 times.