My model work continues and I will be posting some photos of it soon.
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Thursday, July 21, 2016
Dynamite railroad car accident 1913
There was a railroad accident in Park City, Utah in 1913. Fortunately it did not result in an explosion. A switching engine and ore cars got away from the crew and crashed into a car containing 30,000 pounds of Hercules powder. Fortunately despite the cars being forced to travel over 200 feet there was no explosion. The powder was scattered along the right-of-way.
You can see the tender embedded in the rail car.
Here you can see the relatively long train.
I am not sure what railroad this was. In this time period the D&RG railroad and the Union Pacific were serving the are.
My model work continues and I will be posting some photos of it soon.
My model work continues and I will be posting some photos of it soon.
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