Item Details
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Train Derailed in Roanoke, Va.
- Digital Collection
The WSLS-TV News Film Collection, 1951-1971, comprises anchor scripts and 16mm news film created by Roanoke, Va., television station WSLS. A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities funded the preservation and digitization of this collection.
View all items from WSLS-TV (Roanoke, VA) News Film Collection, 1951 to 1971
- Format
- Video; Online; Anchor Script; Streaming Video
- Release Date
- 05/17/58
- Run Time
- 55 seconds
- Sound
- silent
- Color
- BW
- Abstract
- Footage shows the wreckage of a railroad accident in Roanoke, Va., in which a train derailed, destroying the roof of a Norfolk and Western Railway freight house loading dock and damaging several telephone lines. A crane hauls an overturned railroad car off the tracks while a large group of people observes.
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- Each user of the WSLS materials must individually evaluate any copyright or privacy issues that might pertain to the intended uses of these materials, including fair use.
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