Wacoan Observers

ID: 1631 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: E. C. Blomeyer
This file appears in: Camp MacArthur Troop Train Derailment
Wacoan Observers

Spectators, many of whom had detected the sound and smoke, came out to see the wreckage. An early motorbike with a sidecar is seen in the foreground of this photograph.

This file appears in: Camp MacArthur Troop Train Derailment

By Geoff Hunt
On June 18, 1918, a troop train carrying soldiers from Camp MacArthur’s 80th Field Artillery left East Waco and traveled eastward on the Cotton Belt line, heading toward a southern training camp. After traveling for fifteen minutes (about seven…