Aftermath of locomotive pile-up in train tunnel, with bystanders looking on, Tehachapi, 1937
Item Overview
- Title
- Aftermath of locomotive pile-up in train tunnel, with bystanders looking on, Tehachapi, 1937
- Date Created
- [Probably March 15, 1937]
- Date
- 1937-03-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Train accident in railroad tunnel with the resulting pile-up seen in the tunnel's entrance. Bystanders, men, stand throughout the image, on the bridge above the tunnel, in the nearby hillside, and around the wreckage. The bridge has the year, "1915" etched into it. The surrounding area is a rural, grassy field, with barbed wire fencing and trees.
A different photograph of this incident appears on the Photo Standalone page titled "Tehachapi Pass Railway Tunnel Mouth Blocked as Train Piles Up in Ravine." Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 1937: 22.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- Tehachapi Pass (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Disaster
Transportation
Railroad accidents--California--Tehachapi Pass
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9041
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dh1mk
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .