The Embassy Train Wreck
The Embassy Train Wreck
Clip: 353936_1_1
Year Shot: 1956
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1616
Original Film: 029-018-04
HD: N/A
Location: Severn, MD
Timecode: 00:44:11 - 00:44:40
The dead and dieing are removed from the wreckage of the Washington to New York Flyer speeding at 80 mph on its Northbound run, the famous Embassy breaks an axel and nine cars of the train hurdle from the tracks and down an embankment. Six die in the wreckage and 90 are injured. It is hours before the dead and the injured can be cut from the twisted wreck. Establishing shot - Rescue workers entering one of the cars of the train still standing with a stretcher. CUS - Of a passenger train that was torn apart. CUS - The wheel of an overturned passenger car. MS - Derailed train and rescue workers. MS - Railroad investigator. CUS - Work men pulling a hanging piece of the train.