train backs off
TBHC100 years ago…
June 25, 1906 – An Atlantic Coast Line Railroad locomotive backs off the railroad bridge at Cass Street, which was open to allow a steamer through, and into the Hillsborough River. Accounts blamed the accident on the train’s crew focusing landward as cars were being shifted to make up a freight train. The locomotive “was pulling a string of cars to the west side of the river when it backed into the river.”
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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