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Title: Train derailed, Vernon
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Papaleo, Ken
Date Created and/or Issued: 1979
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 shows several tank cars, two of which carry liquefied petroleum gas, that derailed at Washington and Indiana Street in the city of Vernon. Three men, possibly railroad officials, stand to the side trying to figure out how to upright the overturned cars. The railroad tracks appear to have buckled up ahead. Photograph dated December 10, 1979.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 34 cm. on sheet 23 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096116
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f6_i1
CARL0005108480
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30198
Subject: Railroad accidents--California--Vernon
Debris--California--Vernon
Railroad cars--California--Vernon
Petroleum--California--Vernon
Streets--California--Vernon
Vernon (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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