For all of You Train Lovers

[Photon440]

Back story?

Not a lot of details but apparently it hit a large boulder that lay on the tracks after tumbling off a mountain.

 

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The Hunchback of Rio Grande. Denver & Rio Grande Western F7 #5661 after striking a standing train at Thistle, Utah on December 19th, 1963.

 

[Photon440]

The Hunchback of Rio Grande. Denver & Rio Grande Western F7 #5661 after striking a standing train at Thistle, Utah on December 19th, 1963.
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You are correct. I was reading about a different accident that looked similar to this when I mentioned the boulder.

 

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