I had to post this as this is the first time I have come across a story where a city has built a monument to a derailment which seems pretty bizarre. They decorate it with christmas lights? This comes up in a story whose link is posted below about a railfan taking his kid out of school to look at -guess what-another derailment in the same town. Are there any other monuments like this?
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006605060332
Another Pottersville Wreck
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006605060331
It is not exactly a monument to a train wreck, but had it not been for a train wreck, it might not have its name…Risco, Mo. A small community in the Southeast Missouri Bootheel County of New Madrid, was named after a local land mark, a wrecked boxcar. Left along side the right of way due to damage, too severe to remove, and with only the RR’s partial name showing, risco, it became a local land mark, and with the “F” missing from the wooden car side, Risco became a real place on the Frisco Rwy.
Sam
I belive the amtrak train that derailed in Arizone has a small monument to it, at least I think I have heard that, and in Europe when I lived there I remember there being memorials to trains having been destroyed in the war differnet I guess more of a war memorial
There is a plaque on a rock at the site of the SP derailment at Cantara loop.
