Train Wreck, Waterloo-Elmira Branch Line, 1902
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Photograph of a crowd standing by railroad tracks with an overturned train car in the background and an upright train engine on the tracks. Man in foreground wearing cap identified as Charles Liphardt.
- Notes
- Possibly a train wreck on the Grand Trunk branch line between Waterloo and Elmira that occured in early September 1902 a mile south of the Heidelberg station. The engine and tender overturned and were wrecked, the passenger car was overturned and badly damaged. There was one death, the train's fireman.
- Date of Original
- September 1902
- Date Of Event
- September 1902
- Dimensions
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Width: 25 cm
Height: 20 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 25cm
Image Height: 20cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- Z-2-2; Negative No. 135
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.522912 Longitude: -80.568924
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
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