It's real...Don
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Yeah, at first glance I'd think it was a model. At second glance I wonder about the death toll.
What's the background on the photo/event?
TRRR
Yeah Don, Com'on tell us more!!
Doug
scale rail posted:It's real...Don
hello guys and gals............
Where are the bodies, did they just got up and walked away ? YIKES !!!!!!!!! 
"I do all this to make the Good News known. I do it so that I can share in the blessings of the Good News." 1 Corinthians 9:23 ERV (Easy to Read Version)
Tiffany
The engine crew, if they did not jump off, would likely be dead based on how damaged the cab is. There is damage to the rest of the engine, but it is still mostly intact like it may have rolled just once (or 1 1/4).
The RPO is surprisingly intact. Does not look like it rolled, just slid down. The trucks being next to it also indicates this. The postal agents may have survived.
THIS is what you have been up to with the Kaanapali, Lahaina, and Pacific.. trying to take those O-27 curves too fast?
Guys and Gals I can't remember where I found this picture. I have no info on it. Just came across it and thought it was a model at first. Don
Looks like western terrain to me. Not much vegetation. Standard or wide gauge by engine/car size. River vs ocean. A big river too.
Maybe an image matching search could pull something up? ( it could take me an hour or two to figure out and institue. Someone give that PC, i-thingy, or Mac a workout, eh?)
Tiffany posted:scale rail posted:It's real...Don
hello guys and gals............
Where are the bodies, did they just got up and walked away ? YIKES !!!!!!!!!
"I do all this to make the Good News known. I do it so that I can share in the blessings of the Good News." 1 Corinthians 9:23 ERV (Easy to Read Version)
Tiffany
The crew's bodies could've been trapped in what's left of the cab or washed downstream and the poor clerks in the RPO could be dead or disabled.
Rusty
If you enlarge the photo it is indeed real, still looks like a model from the original, but real.
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Well this is frustrating: I entered the picture into Google's image search and it returned "soil" with lovely photos of dirt. I cropped the image to just show the engine and RPO and tried again. This time is returned "vehicle" and showed lovely photos of tanks. 
I tried ...
Tomlinson Run Railroad
Live or Memorex. Although real it does look like it could be a scene on a model railroad. Just the way the engine and tender are laying and the car up the slope a bit it reminds me of American Flyer...............Paul
OK, I'm like a dog with a bone ... maybe one of you retirees or someone with some extra time for wading through some text can check out this Wikipedia link?
List_of_rail_accidents 1900-29
The engine looks like an 0-8-0 but one can't be sure about the first "0" given the shape it's in.
There's another Wikipedia article that's for earlier rail accidents but I didn't see anything later than 1929 in my quick lunch-time search.
Ready, set, go at it!
Tomlinson Run Railroad
TomlinsonRunRR posted:
The engine looks like an 0-8-0 but one can't be sure about the first "0" given the shape it's in.
Tomlinson Run Railroad
Look at the firebox behind the last driver. It used to be a 2-8-2 and WP didn't have any 2-8-4's.
Probably similar to this Mike:
According to roster information I located online, only one Mikado was scrapped (second 325 in 1937) by the Western Pacific, the rest (except for one preserved) were sent to various scrap dealers.
Rusty
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This sounds like the accident. WP Accident at Pulga, CA
UPDATE: Rats, he beat me to it.
Really interesting report. Thanks, guys.
TRRR
"The mystery seems to be solved"
And here's your Scooby Snacks! 
Great work gang!
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