Train Wreck, Tariffville, Connecticut: Coach in Water
PhotographerPhotographed by
Daniel S. Camp
(American, 1844 - 1878)
Date1878
MediumPhotography; albumen prints on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/16 x 3 1/8in. (7.8 x 7.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/16 x 3 1/8in. (7.8 x 7.9cm)
Mount (height x width): 3 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (8.6 x 17.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the Wethersfield Historical Society
Object number1988.86.3
DescriptionA shattered railroad coach hangs from an embankment into a river. Debris, including portions of another coach, is in the river. Part of a wooden railroad bridge extends overhead. Men wearing dark overcoats stand on the bank of the river looking at the wreck.
NotesSubject Note: On 15 January 1878, a locomotive and several coaches of a Connecticut Western Railroad train plunged from a bridge into the Farmington River in Tariffville, Connecticut. Thirteen people were killed and more than seventy were injured. (Finlay 12/21/2013)Status
Not on view
