SD-45 1728

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After taking a look at these photos it is clear that the earlier photo is  
of the 1728. The SD-35 is relatively intact while the other locomotive is 
pretty  much toast. The damage matches the position of the freight car on the 
radiator  end.
 
Thanks for the photos.
 
Richard D. Shell
Troutville, VA
 
 
In a message dated 4/17/2012 11:33:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

On Mon,  Apr 16, 2012 at 8:03 PM, abram wrote:


 
 
The wreck was a rear-end collision between two westbounds (during heavy  
fog) at Lee's Cross Roads, Pa., just east of Shippensburg, Pa.  Lee's  Cross 
Roads sits atop the watershed between the Potomac and Susquehanna  Rivers. 
I have several none-too-good photos of the wreck and will be delighted to  
share them.  What I don't have is the date of the  incident.



I've been poking around and found this website, "Lurgan Branch History" (  
_http://www.nearthetracks.com/index.php/lurganhistorycontent_ 
(http://www.nearthetracks.com/index.php/lurganhistorycontent)   ) with this note:


Author note: On Oct 31, 1974 there  was a derailment just east of CP Lees 
when a coal drag ran into the rear of a  stopped freight train on a very 
foggy morning. I was there after the accident  but didn't think to get any 
pictures at the time. A local resident provided me  with some photos of the 
derailment. The quality is not the best, but I'll post  them anyway. 


Whoever created the page writes  horrible code and the link is munged, but 
I looked around his site and found a  link to the photos:
 
_http://www.nearthetracks.com/index.php/old-photos/category/6-wreckoct1974_ 
(http://www.nearthetracks.com/index.php/old-photos/category/6-wreckoct1974)   They look like they were taken from a distance with an Instamatic  
camera. 


For whatever reason, this accident  report didn't/hasn't made it into the 
on-line DOT library at 
_http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_railroads_ 
(http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_railroads)  


But now we have a date.


Bruce in Blacksburg








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