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Title: Train derailed, Burbank
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
One man was killed and another was critically injured when an ABC Rubbish Co. trash truck drove around a railroad crossing gate and was struck by a Southern Pacific Railroad train going 40 m.p.h. The trash truck ended up hundreds of yards from Clybourn Avenue, the intersection at which it was struck. The tracks run along Vanowen in Burbank. Pictured is what remains of the cab and motor of the trash truck and the scattered debris from the truck. Photograph dated April 18, 1988.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 33 cm. on sheet 26 x 34 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096125
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f6_i11
CARL0005108876
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30211
Subject: Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad accidents--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Debris--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Railroad tracks--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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