Earthquake Damage to Railroads

W. G. Byers Collection: 1886-1897

	Image-B0101 Derailed train at the 9-mile point.
	Image-B0102 Effects of quake produced a right lateral offset in the railway. No. 4 point of 8 commands, view North, 70 [degrees]east from 20 mile post + 3600 ft. Charleston & Savannah Railroad.
	Image-B0103 "The South Carolina Railway company train was washed from the track by a four-foot high wall of water when the earthquake burst the mill-dam at Langley Pond near Aiken, SC. The train's black fireman, a Mr. Ivie, died in the wreck. Another train owned by the same company was washed from the track near Horse Creek in Aiken County closer to Augusta, GA., when a mill-dam there also fractured because of the earthquake and sent an eight-foot-high wave of water surging against the locomotive, tender, and its train cars." (South Caroliniana Library Archives)
	Image-B0201 Displaced ballast, buckled track and deformed embankment.
	Image-B0202 Kisogawa rairoad bridge after the earthquake. Crack at arch in brick pier.
	Image-B0203 Bridge near Biwajima: abutments pushed apart and arch collapsed.
	Image-B0204 Another bridge near the Great Kisogawa Bridge. Abutment shaft broken and rotated. Wing walls cracked and separated from abutment.
	Image-B0205 Bridge near the Kisogawa Bridge. Abutment cracked at haunch of arch in approach. Approach embankment settled.
	Image-B0206 Nagara Gawa Railway Bridge. Failed concrete-filled cast iron pier columns.
	Image-B0207 Approach to Nagara Gawa Railway Bridge. Embankment settlement.
	Image-B0209 View of Nagara Gawa Railway Bridge in the distance. Five 200' truss spans and approach spans. Tallest piers, near center of channel have failed. Bridge had carried normal traffic and withstood unusually large floods without damage.
	Image-B0210 General view of Nagara Gawa Railroad Bridge. Failure limited to taller piers supporting longer spans shown.
	Image-B0211 Nagara Gawa Railroad Bridge. Broken cast iron piers now above railroad ties. Center of bridge has shifted upstream.
	Image-B0301 Illinois Central Railroad Cairo Bridge over the Ohio River. Cracking of joints in a bridge pier reportedly caused by the 1895 earthquake. Bands were probably installed as a repair or retrofit after the earthquake. Photo ca. 1950.
	Image-B0401 Manshai Bridge, Eastern Bengal State Railway.
	Image-B0402 Station yard, Nilphamari, India (now Bangladesh). Eastern Bengal State Railway.
	Image-B0403 Sand vents near Shaistagan Station, Assam, India (now Bangladesh). Eastern Bengal State Railway.

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