Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.

Cape Girardeau Northern train derailed

Posted Monday, June 17, 2013, at 12:00 AM

Derailment of a Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad train. Undated; unknown location.

Previous blogs:

Cape Girardeau Northern depot

Railroad underpasses long gone

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Here's a pileup of 27 railroad cars north of Neely's Landing.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/train-cars-hop-track/

My video of putting coins on the track didn't CAUSE the derailment in Wittenberg a week later, honest. You can also see a home video of kids hopping on the train for the traditional ride to Chaffee, and the history of how Advance got its name because Louis Houck was cheap.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/perry-county/coins-on-the-train-track/

Here is an account of the last train robbery in Missouri that ended (for the bad guys) in Wittenberg.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/missouris-last-train-robbery/

Like Frony and Fred, I wrote about the railroad underpasses, but a reader's comment came up with a side story that was better than anything I found in the history books.

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-downtown/houck-railroad-bridges/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Mon, Jun 17, 2013, at 9:01 AM

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