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Title: Train derailed, El Monte
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Kawana, Toru
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
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.
Photograph caption dated June 13, 1984 reads, "Lost Track - An engineer and brakeman were injured when a train derailed in El Monte near Santa Anita Avenue and Valley Boulevard. A spokesman for Southern Pacific Railroad said vandals tampered with a track switch. Loss was estimated at about $1 million."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096101
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f5_i11
CARL0005107048
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30599
Subject: Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Railroads--Vandalism--California--El Monte
Railroad accidents--California--El Monte
Truck trailers--California--El Monte
Debris--California--El Monte
Railroad cars--California--El Monte
El Monte (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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