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Photographer: Photo courtesy of the Hamburg Historical Society
Caption: Trains Off Line: The Challenge of Railroad Safety — top left image
Additional Description: Human error sent these two trains into each other on November 21, 1908 along the Ann Arbor Railroad line between Hamburg and Lakeland. Dense nighttime fog kept the engineers from seeing each other until it was too late.
Submitted: July 18, 2022, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p667672
File Size: 3.848 Megabytes

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