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Description
Wreck of Bangor and Aroostook steam engines 181 and 400 on April 4, 1945.
The Bangor Daily reported that,
"...at the Washburn cut-off a mile north of here (Squa Pan) overturned one locomotive, damaged another, set afire a caboose and refrigerator car, damaged seven other freight cars, and forced engine crewmen to leap for their lives.
"The accident occurred as one of two southbound freight trains standing near Squa Pan station, was struck from the rear by a third, 110-car double header (two engines, 400 & 181) freight, piling up the caboose and freight cars of the standing train and buckling the locomotive and tender."
About This Item
- Title: Train wreck, Squa Pan, 1945
- Creation Date: 1945-04-04
- Subject Date: 1945-04-04
- Location: Squa Pan, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 7.6 cm x 13.5 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company--Engine 400--Photographs
- Railroad accidents--Maine--Squa Pan--Photographs
- Railroads--Maine
- Railroad locomotives--Maine
- Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company--Engine 181-Photographs
- Railroad accidents--Maine--Squa Pan
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Oakfield Historical SocietyPO Box 176, Oakfield, ME 04763
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