[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