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| Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution derailed train derailedtrain new hampshire newhampshire upside down mailcar upsidedownmailcar wreck train black white old station train wreck boston & maine 302 trainwreckbostonmaine302 national postal museum nationalpostalmuseum outdoor Date: November 13, 1954 Object number: A.2009-49 Medium: paper; photo-emulsion Description: Wreckage of Boston & Maine train #302, the Red Wing, just outside the Nashua, New Hampshire train station. The train had been traveling at a high rate of speed and derailed on a curve entering the station. The locomotives derailed, hitting freight cars on an adjacent siding as they moved. A female passenger was killed, and 53 others injured in the wreck. Among the injured was one of the Railway Post Office clerks, who was pinned under tables and furnishings in the mail car. That car, visible in the center of the photograph, landed on its roof. National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Place: United States of America      New Hampshire See more items in: National Postal Museum Collection Credit line: National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Persistent URL:http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207613 Repository:National Postal Museum View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. Date: November 13, 1954 Object number: A.2009-49 Medium: paper; photo-emulsion Description: Wreckage of Boston & Maine train #302, the Red Wing, just outside the Nashua, New Hampshire train station. The train had been traveling at a high rate of speed and derailed on a curve entering the station. The locomotives derailed, hitting freight cars on an adjacent siding as they moved. A female passenger was killed, and 53 others injured in the wreck. Among the injured was one of the Railway Post Office clerks, who was pinned under tables and furnishings in the mail car. That car, visible in the center of the photograph, landed on its roof. National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Place: United States of America New Hampshire See more items in: National Postal Museum Collection Credit line: National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Persistent URL:http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207613 Repository:National Postal Museum View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. | ||||
