Still more pictures
These are some pictures my Grandpa Tucker gave me. He wrote on the back of one: "This wreck was about a block from where the folks (my great-grandparents) lived in Sandpoint ID, just the engine jumped the track. This engine is a 4-4-0 Baldwin" It happened on June 5 1947; the engine was owned and operated by Spokane International Railway.
posted by Forrest at 5:05 PM
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The SI (Spokane International) served the Sandpoint, ID area where Dad (Forrest's Grandpa) grew up; and I mean served. I remember Dad telling me that the line ran near their house (I think it was up near Samuels) and Grandma would send a crate of eggs with a shopping list on the train into Sandpoint and the next trip out they would drop off the groceries. I guess that says something about the service at the store as well as the train; do you suppose Super Wal-Mart would do that?
Friar Tuck (Forrest's Dad)
this looks quite a bit like the cover of the album Audible Sight by Vigilantes of Love
http://www.pastestore.com/product/67
did trains have a habbit of tipping over back then?
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