Way We Were: From one train wreck to another
Park City Museum researcher This July 1905 photo shows the Denver and Rio Grande engine and tender overturned as it headed north out of town to Salt Lake City. Someone had left the switch open. The open switch was not apparent to the engineer until it was too late to stop the forward progress. The Park City Historical Society & Museum, Thomas F. Hansen Collection If you think 2020 is a train wreck, the nascent railroad industry was deluged with train wrecks across the nation in its first 50 years. Park City was no exception. According to Park City historians Steve Leatham and David Nicholas, ...
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