New Haven
Shore Line Electric Railway
Freight motor 100 couples
up to wrecked Jewett car 16 with a drawbar, in the aftermath of the August
3 1917 wreck in North Branford where westbound car 16, with a tired motorman
looking into the setting sun put his head down on his controller for a
moment and overran his meeting point, colliding with eastbound car 3.
August, 1917
Caption data from Bill Young
Bill Volkmer collection
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