RE: [CBQ] Derailment Photo

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

The 60-foot RPO car in the derailment photo, incidentally, is one of the class MA-10 cars in series 2315-2324, built by AC&F in 1916-17.  Their 4-2 window configuration was distinctive and was later changed to a group of five windows toward one end -- also distinctive.  To be carrying a 60-foot mail car the train involved would have had to be one of the through trains between St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul in conjunction with the Rock Island north of Burlington.  The photo of the engine in the river makes it clear that it was a northbound train, so it was most likely the northbound-only train (no southbound counterpart), No. 1, which left St. Louis at 11:45 p.m., passed Fort Madison at 5:08 a.m., arriving at Burlington at 5:40 and continuing on north on the Rock Island for a 4:45 p.m. arrival at St. Paul and 5:40 at Minneapolis.  The only other choice would have been No. 15, the Twin City Limited, which departed St. Louis at 2:15 p.m. and passed Fort Madison at 8:20 p.m.
 
Comparing the locomotive in the river with the locomotive sitting on the Fort Madison siding, there's a strong likelihood that they are the same locomotive, even to the left side classification light on the smokebox.
 
Hol
 

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To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:14:10 -0600
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Derailment Photo [1 Attachment]

 

[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner included below]

I went looking in the Barriger collection and found the image of the wrecked Pacific set out at Fort Madison -- on the first page of Santa Fe photos.
 
Hol
 

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To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:02:16 -0600
Subject: [CBQ] Derailment Photo [1 Attachment]

 

[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner included below]

The attached image is being used  on eBay to illustrate a large group of press photos of railroad derailments and collisions now being offered for sale, with a starting bid of $150.  I immediately recognized it as a Q shot and began wondering where and when it might have been taken.  Finally I inquired of the seller as to what information might be on the back of the print and got this reply:
 
The image caption reads:  "Fort Madison, Iowa. -- The wreckage of a locomotive and tender of a Burlington train which a 300-foot landslide rolled into the Mississippi River near here.  The engineer and fireman, who were carried with the engine, swam out, unhurt.  9-18-35.
 
I recall an image from the J.W. Barriger III collection that might possibly be the same locomotive sitting in Fort Madison after being hauled out of the river, but it was misfiled under Santa Fe and I don't have a copy of it.
 
Hol 

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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