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Photo of a Rockford train wreck. Date and location unknown.

Chicago and St. Paul Railroad wreck. Car 129 is lying almost perpendicular to the track.

Freight Engine 491 was involved in a head-on collision with a much smaller engine, Switch Engine 116, just west of the 7th Street crossing of the Illinois Central Railroad. The freight train was running about 30 minutes ahead of schedule at the time…

A large crowd gathers to watch as a special locomotive with a front-end crane moves into position to start removing train cars that have left the track during a wreck. The river is visible to the left and a two-lane road to the right. It is unclear…