Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-09-20 | Page 13 | Freight Engine Leaps from S. L. Tracks

FREIGHT ENGINE LEAPS FROM S. S L L. TRACKS Winds Up on Sidewalk With None Injured y 4 1 1 4 IR v h t Iv 1 I r i S 50 4 A i s t a at 7 f w I GIANT OF RAILS TAKES TO THE SIDEWALK AFTER JUMPING IPING TRACK AT FIFTH SOUTH AND THIRD WEST I Hundred ton sixty-ton Union Pacific locomotive causes causes' passenger traffic t to be rerouted from west wes A huge freight engine of the I Union Pacific railroad jumped the tracks Tuesday at Fifth South and Third West streets ripped up sidewalks sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks and partly buried its nose in a pile of dirt dir scooped cooped up JIP by the cowcatcher ow atcher The ton giant one of two engines hauling a long line of freight cars failed to negotiate a no switch snitch while traveling about 10 miles an hour tour first reports by company officials said All but the tender left the track t The second eng engine ne remained on the track and backed up the freight cars Engineer of the derailed engine was W. W F. F Vincent Blair street l Rail il p fici said Jt was nee nee- essary t to reroute passenger trains arriving from the west At noon the engine had not been lifted back to the tr track ck although three other engines were ere brought into play in the effort eff rt None C was injured d x- x k