[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