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Five C.N.R. Freight Cars Fall 30 Feet to Highway at Breslau Subway—18 Others Derailed

Five C.N.R. Freight Cars Fall 30 Feet to Highway at Breslau Subway—18 Others Derailed. From the Waterloo Chronicle, Thursday, April 2, 1936, page 1. The image caption reads:

Ripping up a quarter of a mile of track, 23 Canadian National Railway freight cars were derailed at Breslau, near Kitchener, early Tuesday. Five of the cars dropped 30 feet to the Guelph-Kitchener road, where they were completely demolished, and narrowly missed passing automobiles. In the above photograph is seen wreckage lying on the highway, with trucks, tie-rods and other pieces of equipment scattered around. If t eaccident had occurred a few hundred yards farther down the line, the entire crew of six would have been carried to their deaths in the swollen waters of the Grand River. One set of trucks off one car, weighing more than one ton, was tossed 100 feet.

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