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Title: Southern Pacific train derailed by utility truck, Glendale, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 19, 1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Workmen unload mail and express packages from the derailed train in order to deliver them on time. The Southern Pacific Railroad locomotive had crashed into a seven-ton truck on the tracks in Glendale. A dozen people were injured, with no fatalities.
This photograph is related to the article, "Train Wreck in Glendale Hurts Dozen," Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct 1935: 1, 10.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2570-- Train Wreck, S.P. = Glendale, 10-19-35, [Stamped:] OCT 23 1935
Handwritten on negative: Taking mail & Express from wrecked SP train
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9029
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Railroad accidents--California--Glendale
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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