by BR&P
I suppose by comparing it to a mainline wreck it was not such a big one, but to a young kid in the neighborhood it sure was. "C2629" may be able to help with a date. School was closed because of an ice storm but it was somewhere about January 1960 I think. The First Belt was headed north with a fairly long train, and derailed I'm going to guess about 10 or 12 cars right at Dewey Avenue northward. It was not just a couple wheels, they crossed them up pretty good and Dewey was blocked for quite a while. The wreck train came with crane X29 - no Winters or Corman back then! I have some photos of it, but after changing rolls of film I was standing on the parallel B&O tracks and dropped my camera squarely on the rail. The hard rail, the brittle plastic of those days and the cold resulted in the camera breaking open and ruining whatever shots I had in there. So I have a few photos but not as many as I had taken.