Re: [CBQ] Provo, SD - was Derailment Photo [1 Attachment]

["Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

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Speaking of Provo, SD - I was through there not long ago and found the building in the attached image.  Was this the depot, or a section foreman's house, or did someone just tack the station sign onto the side of their private residence?

msw

anacortes, wa

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

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An odd coincidence in that Jim Ehernberger just asked me about this incident a couple of days ago.  Attached is an image of the running gear of O-1 5020 taken in the Edgemont, S.D., yards after they were towed there following the boiler explosion as the engine was pulling a train up Provo Hill, 10 miles south of Edgemont, on Feb. 15, 1913.  I also have a photo of the remains of the boiler, on the ground at the explosion site, but I can't locate it right now.  It appears on page 95 of the new Alliance Division book published by Arcadia Publishing (Images of Rail: The Burlington Railroad Alliance Division, by Richard C. Kistler, Michael M. Bartels and James J. Reisdorff).  This is actually a revision of Alliance and Everywhere West, the earlier book by Joe Hardy and Richard Kistler that was published by Jim Reisdorff's South Platte Press.  As the caption in the book notes, "A Burlington freight engine, 2-8-2 No. 5020, exploded near Provo, South Dakota, at 12:05 a.m. on February 15, 1913, killing the engineer, fireman and head brakeman.  The train did not derail, but the force of the explosion sent the boiler flying entirely beyond the right-of-way.  This locomotive was returned to service."
 
Hol
 

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