[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