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Close-up phot of derailed railroad cars and damaged tracks.
On back of photo:
CNW
Train Crash
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Fishtail motion...is evident in derailed cars of Overland Limited passenger train. Several hundred feet of train is damaged.

Workers Investigate...the best method of pulling this entanglement of freight cars apart. The derailment occurred when a rail broke on a feeder line of the Chicago and North Western at the north edge of Council Bluffs.

Lakeside Pileup: A piggyback trailer, full of hams, lies on its side only feet away from the pond in Lakeside Park at the north edge of Council Bluffs. The boxcar above is lying on another freight car, behind the trailer. The eight-car derailment…