Call No: PC44-C2c
Description: Engine 5036
Date of origin:
Type: Postcard
Size: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2
Condition: Good
Content:
[back] Post Card; Correspondence; [Tartto] Studio; Kodak finishing and Gift Shoppe Liberal, Kans 14 S. Kans Ave; AZO; Place Stamp Here; Harry E. Chrisman 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [two stamps] 35 (circled in red ink). [note – handwritten] Walter Walker engineer (smeared) ….. Brakeman Holder that went down in this wreck still live in Pratt Walker is [?] Holder is still working Fireman Powell died several years ago, I do not know about the rest of the crew [note – typed, put in seperate sleeve] Back at the yards, she had the appearance of a male Peacock that had shed its tail, when Engine 5036 was resurrected from her watery grave. —- Photos courtesy O.B. Wimmer. (sentence underlined) 35 (circled in red ink) 24 75% [front of post card] Engine 5036 Raised from Cimmeron river after R.I.R.R. Freight wreck. 8-18-38. Weight 733200 Power 67000. Draw Bar booster 70000 LBS. Cost 115,000.00 Yurile Stv —
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Miscellaneous Info.:
Picture of a train engine that is beat up. Building behind it and man standing in front of it.
Other Info.: Typed note in seperate sleeve same #.
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Subject: brakeman holder, Cimarron River, engineer, fireman Powell, O.B. Wimmer, Pratt Kansas, RI RR freight train, train wreck, Walter Walker,