An album of original snapshot photography documenting a January 4, 1987 train collision near the tiny unincorporated place of Chase, Maryland on the Gunpowder River in far eastern Baltimore County. The wreck occurred between a northbound Amtrak passenger train traveling between Washington, D.C. and Boston and a set of Conrail locomotives. The incident left 16 people dead and more than 160 injured. At the time it was the single deadliest accident in Amtrak's history and has since been surpassed only by the Big Bayou Canot crash of 1993 where 47 died near Mobile, Alabama.

The aftermath is intimately captured here in nearly 50 clear and seemingly otherwise unpublished photographs. 

SULLIVAN, G.L. (photographer) : [Railroadiana]. [Snapshot Album of a 1987 Train Collision in Baltimore County, Maryland]. [Chase, Maryland]: 1987. Commercial album with 47 color drugstore print photographs, each approximately 6" x 4" and loosely set beneath plastic overlays of cascading thin card pages. Each with ink stamps to verso: "G.L. SULLIVAN 1987." Near fine condition.