Friday, March 10, 2023

Loose driver tire

The crew of this B&O passenger locomotive managed to get the train stopped without incident when the tire worked itself off the wheel at 70 mph. That must have made some noise.

 The engineer poses with the wheel in the closeup below. 


Robert C. Reed, Train Wrecks, A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line, Bonanza Books, 1968

 Tire being installed on a wheel here.

2 comments:

Grant said...


I hope the engineer was wearing his brown overalls...

Mister G said...

;-)