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The wreck train. This is an enlargement of part of the previous photo, showing the wreck train. The loco looks similar to the one involved in the wreck, but since #315 was the only C430 on the GB&W, I'm guessing it might be one of their C424s, based on what looks like a distinctive bulge at the end of the long hood, just below the roof line. The car behind it looks like an old 40-foot outside braced wood sheathed boxcar, probably too old for interchange service but still used on maintenance of way trains. This may well have been one of the GBW 8100- or KGB&W 5500- series cars which were retired from revenue service about the time of this wreck. Back to the 1969 Train Wreck photos. |
Patricia Mathu
photo, May 1969.
