Train Wreckage

ID: 1635 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: E. C. Blomeyer
This file appears in: Camp MacArthur Troop Train Derailment
Train Wreckage

The Pullman coaches had their undercarriage torn away as the rails and limestone bed gave way underneath, resulting in severe damage to the train and serious injury to passengers.

This file appears in: Camp MacArthur Troop Train Derailment

By Geoff Hunt
On June 18, 1918, a troop train carrying soldiers from Camp MacArthur’s 80th Field Artillery left East Waco and traveled eastward on the Cotton Belt line, heading toward a southern training camp. After traveling for fifteen minutes (about seven…