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Colour slide showing Welland Canal Bridge 12 collapsed in the water after a collision with a freighter on August 25, 1974.

Colour slide showing Welland Canal Bridge 12 collapsed in the water after a collision with a freighter on August 25, 1974.

Two colour slides showing Welland Canal Bridge 12 collapsed in the water after a collision with a freighter on August 25, 1974.

Colour slide showing Welland Canal Bridge 12 collapsed in the water after a collision with a freighter on August 25, 1974.

Colour slide showing Welland Canal Bridge 12 collapsed in the water after a collision with a freighter on August 25, 1974.

Colour slide showing Welland Canal Bridge 12 collapsed in the water in front of the Steelton freighter after they collided on August 25, 1974.

Colour slide showing damage to the Steelton freighter after it collided with Welland Canal Bridge 12 on August 25, 1974.

Black and white photographic print showing an attempt to remove the New York Central train engine from the Welland Canal, c. 1929. It's unclear if this is from an earlier unsuccessful attempt or the attempt on August 14, 1929 which lifted the engine…

Two black and white photographic prints of Engine 8419 of the New York Central lines freshly removed from the Welland Canal, c. August 1929.

An article from the August 15, 1929 edition of the Welland Tribune about a crashed train engine finally being removed from the Welland Canal the day before on August 14. The crash had happened on June 28, and it took multiple attempts to remove it.