Train - Accident - Meeting head to head 1909 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Train - Accident - Meeting head to head 1909 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1909, Oct 6
Original title: Wreck on I.C.R.R.
Photographer: International Stereograph Co
Location: Near Farmer City, Ill
The full sized color image has the detail about what kind of locomotives these are and who did what to cause this. The basic story is, one guy looked at his watch and was 14 minutes off. The other engine, saw it coming, and hit the breaks, stopping, just before the engine moving at full speed hit it.
One person died, quite a few cars crushed into each other, the ones with metal cars were fine. Both engineers jumped, and though they had some gruesome leg injuries, they lived. But I don't know which car is which as far as fault goes. The location was near Farmer city, but it was on a bend, and there was a bend like this in Farmer city, but who knows. This may be photo distortion as well, hard to tell.
I added red in the wheels on one engine because one of my models had red wheels, and I really wanted red wheel. I needed to separate the blacks from everything else and give a focal point.
The image itself was taken as a panorama, but divided for a book. And the edges are slightly not there, so they don't line perfectly up. But it went together pretty well.
What I do know is, it really got the town together, and probably made quite a sound. Also this image, when I started it, I did not see all those people there until after I started to color, there are a lot of people there, probably the entire town.
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