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Head-On Train Collision
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The wreckage of a head-on collision of two Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains at Tramway. Men stand near and on top of the railroad cars. In the foreground is a field and fence, and dead cows are lying near the railroad cars.
October 1891
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