File:Wreck on outside track at Point of Rocks beside the tunnel.jpg

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Summary

Train wreck on outside track at Point of Rocks beside the tunnel. The wrecking crew from Brunswick were called out to clean up train wrecks.

(Photo courtesy of Phil Lowery)

Fred Riley of Brunswick was a crane operator for the B&O. He used to get called out when there was a wreck or a train hopped the tracks.--Rhonda

Robert Foster: My uncle Morgan Webber used to run the crane on the wrecking crew as well not sure what year's i was a teenager then.They parked the crane and other car's they used on a side track between the old silver fuel storage tank and where you cross the track's.

W Frank Mathers: Crane operator Morgan Webber was quite a guy. A great conversationalist who always had a chaw of tabaccie working while he conversed about worldly matters.

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