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12/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Mitch Cline
Dates:1/1/1979 - 12/31/2000
Album Info:The wreck photos at Chippewa Falls, WI was train 944 that hit a washout in the middle of the night derailing 35 cars. The wreck photos of Annandale MN was an extra east grain train that broke a coupler and derailed 10 cars, 5 of them were scrapped.
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SOO WRECK AT HUMBOLDT AVE YARD
Title:  SOO WRECK AT HUMBOLDT AVE YARD
Description:  Train 942 was heading into Humboldt Yd to set out some cars when they split a switch.
Photo Date:  5/5/1980  Upload Date: 9/27/2015 9:08:44 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK AT HUMBOLDT AVE YARD
Title:  SOO WRECK AT HUMBOLDT AVE YARD
Description:  Train 942 was coming into Humboldt Yd to set out some cars when they split a switch.
Photo Date:  5/5/1980  Upload Date: 9/27/2015 9:07:03 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK AT HUMBOLDT AVE YARD.
Title:  SOO WRECK AT HUMBOLDT AVE YARD.
Description:  Train 942 was coming into Humboldt Yd to set out some cars when they split a switch.
Photo Date:  5/5/1980  Upload Date: 9/27/2015 9:06:27 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  On a dark and very stormy night train 944 hit a wash out west of Chippewa Falls. The engines and 1 car stayed on the tracks, but 35 cars behind that derailed. Was on the wrecking crew and was called out. We worked for almost 24 hours with Hulcher to clear the mainline and get the trains rolling.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:26 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  The cars piled up from hitting a washout.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:27 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  Most of the cars went toward the trees. By the U-haul truck you can see the booms of the sidewinder Cat from Hulcher.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:28 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  This is our crew cutting the end off the flat car. They were trying to clear the siding to build a shoo fly track to get trains moving. The other end of the flat car was through 2 boxcars that were side by side filled with cedar siding.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:29 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  This is were the other end of the SOO 5667 flatcar ended up. The dark CP boxcar was too close to the track in the foreground. They tried to move it but is was too wedged in and it wouldn't budge. A Hulcher Cat came up and ripped up the end of the car to give clearence we needed to clear the track.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:29 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Wreck
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  The guys standing on top of the wrecked container were trying decide how to get the hazardous chemicals out. The chemicals was an adhesive in 5 gallon buckets.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:31 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  This is looking east toward the power. They were going to connect the track in the foreground and with the mainline.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:32 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  This is the west end of the pile up. Most of the cars went to the left of the mainline.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:33 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  This is to show how powerful and how much rain that was in the area. Just up the road from the wreck is this driveway that washed out. The culver is to the right out of the picture and it was about 4 feet in diameter.
Photo Date:  6/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:34 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  This is the result of a broken coupler. The pipe off to the right is used to tranfer the load of grain.
Photo Date:  9/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:36 PM
Location:  Annandale, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  The results of a broken coupler. The pipe to the right is tranferring grain from the cars.
Photo Date:  9/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:37 PM
Location:  Annandale, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  The results of a broken coupler. The 2 guys are hooking up the pipes to transfer the load of grain.
Photo Date:  9/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:38 PM
Location:  Annandale, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  The results of a broken coupler.
Photo Date:  9/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:39 PM
Location:  Annandale, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  Just another angle
Photo Date:  9/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:40 PM
Location:  Annandale, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  Grain and ballast don't mix.
Photo Date:  9/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:40 PM
Location:  Annandale, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  This is looking east at the derailment. The track on the ties are from the broken coupler before it lifted the cars off the tracks.
Photo Date:  9/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:40 PM
Location:  Annandale, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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SOO WRECK
Title:  SOO WRECK
Description:  A great shot for underside details.
Photo Date:  9/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/19/2013 8:26:40 PM
Location:  Annandale, MN
Author:  Mitch Cline
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Views:  202   Comments: 0


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