Nearly 2,600 500-pound U.S. Navy bombs on a train detonated in three massive explosions near Dragoon, Ariz., on May 24-25, 1973. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that sparking brakes ignited wood and sodium nitrate residue in a boxcar...
All photos © Arizona Daily Star or Tucson CitizenTorn open by exploding 500-pound bombs, a Southern Pacific boxcar sends a shower of sparks from its blazing interior. Railroad officials said 12 cars were demolished in the munitions blast. The shipment included 2,600 bombs and was minutes away from the town of Benson. May 24, 1973.
Hundreds of unexploded Navy bombs lie alongside the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks east of Benson where they were retrieved from the wreckage of a 107-car freight train. Most of the train's cargo of some 1 1/2 million pounds of bombs went up in smoke in a explosion on May 24, 1973. Douglas Kreutz / Tucson Citizen.Scene of a munitions explosion on a Southern Pacific RR train near Benson on May 24-25, 1973. The main blast created a crater 115 feet long and 25 feet deep.
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