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| By: | Bob Hasty | | Dates: | 11/25/1951 - 11/25/1951 | | Album Info: | On November 25, 1951, The Crescent was routed off it's normal route south of Atlanta via A&WP/WRwy of Al and L&N to the all Southern Rwy route to New Orleans. Operating as Second #47 and following First #47, the Southerner, it was lined up to meet train #48 at Woodstock, Al. Train 48 went into the siding, met First #47then went through the switch at the north end of the siding resulting in a headon collision with 17 deaths. Train 48 consist: Engine 2823, cars(all Southern) 700, 833, 952, 815, 3312, 827, 821 & 1102. Consist of Train 2nd 47: Engines 2915 & 2801, cars LN 1120, LN 3252, AWP 69, AWP 68, Burch River, Otter River, Crescent Moon, AWP 501, Senickley Inn, Schuylkill River, Seneca River and Luther Calvin Norris. ICC report available at: http://dotlibrary.specialcollection.net/Document?db=DOT-RAILROAD&query=%28select+3409%29
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2801 on fire |
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Train Second 47, second engine Southern 2801 on fire. Another picture found by Jeff Murphree |
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11/25/1951 Upload Date: 8/13/2017 11:16:30 AM |
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Woodstock, AL |
| Author: |
Bob Hasty |
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Wreck,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 2801(E6A) |
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SOU 2915, Close up view of front of engine. |
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11/25/1951 Upload Date: 11/12/2012 4:46:16 PM |
| Location: |
Woodstock, AL |
| Author: |
Bob Hasty |
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Wreck,Passenger |
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SOU 2915(E7A) |
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1322 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Three Budd cars and a fire |
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Thanks to Jeff Murphree. Another photo showing two A&WP cars with fire between them and L&N car nearly destroyed. Unbelieveable how a laddar was put up under the L&N car to get to the passengers. Do you see the crosstie proped up next to the laddar to keep the car from rollng over ? |
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11/25/1951 Upload Date: 7/20/2017 10:51:47 AM |
| Location: |
Woodstock, AL |
| Author: |
Bob Hasty |
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Wreck,Passenger |
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Google Earth View of scene of Woodstock Wreck. This is what the scene looks like today. It has changed very little in the 60+ years since this deadly wreck except the L&N branch line has been abandoned. I tried to capture this as close to the original pic |
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11/25/1951 Upload Date: 11/12/2012 4:54:05 PM |
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Woodstock, AL |
| Author: |
Bob Hasty |
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| Title: |
View from the L&N |
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This picture was recently posted on Facebook. Apparently taken by a "tourist" who came to check out the wreck. It shows the scene looking down the L&N line which ran under the Southern mainline. You can see the derrick picking up cars and the L&N RPO/Baggage car. |
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11/25/1951 Upload Date: 1/26/2016 5:02:31 PM |
| Location: |
Woodstock, AL |
| Author: |
Bob Hasty |
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Steam,Wreck,Passenger,Track |
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Acme Telephoto view of Wreck |
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This is a picture that was shared with me from Alan Dismukes. It is from Acme Telephoto company, a news photo service. Shows a slightly different view of the wreck. It shows a Pennsylvania RR sleeper on the right. |
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11/25/1951 Upload Date: 11/14/2016 11:46:32 AM |
| Location: |
Woodstock, AL |
| Author: |
unknown |
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Wreck,Passenger |
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AP photo |
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Photo which was shown in the Birmingham News. See photo for full description. Thanks to Jeff Murphree and the Heart of Dixie RR club for this photo. |
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11/25/1951 Upload Date: 6/11/2017 11:55:41 PM |
| Location: |
Woodstock, AL |
| Author: |
Bob Hasty |
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Wreck,Passenger |
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470 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rescue |
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Another photo thanks to Jeff Murphree. This shows the rescue efforts. A close look will reveal that the rescuers are trying to get one or two people out of the mangeled wreckage. There is a big difference in how this is done today. |
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11/25/1951 Upload Date: 6/23/2017 12:50:41 AM |
| Location: |
Woodstock, AL |
| Author: |
Bob Hasty |
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Wreck,Passenger |
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399 Comments: 0 |
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