The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: ROSEVILLE BOMBS BOUND FOR VIETNAM AUG 1973
On April 28, 1973, a Southern Pacific freight train loaded with aerial bombs bound for Vietnam caught fire and detonated at the Roseville, California rail yard, and these photographs record the devastation that followed. Craters, shredded boxcars, twisted rails, and scattered ordnance debris document one of the largest accidental munitions explosions on American soil.
Wreckage from the Roseville Yard Munitions Train Explosion, California, 1973
Aftermath of Roseville Yard Munitions Train Explosion, Roseville, California, August 1973
Aftermath of the Roseville Yard Explosion, Roseville, California, 1973
Roseville Rail Yard Explosion Aftermath - Bomb Train Wreckage, 1973
Bomb Casing Recovery, Roseville Yard Explosion Aftermath, Roseville, California, 1973
Wreckage at Southern Pacific Roseville Yard After Ordnance Train Explosion, August 1973
Wrecked Rail Cars at Roseville Yard Following 1973 Munitions Train Explosion
Aftermath of the Roseville Rail Yard Explosion, 1973 - Derailed Boxcars and Wrecked Pickup Truck
Wrecked Boxcars at Southern Pacific Roseville Yard Following the 1973 Munitions Train Explosion
Bomb Fin Assembly Debris Beneath Rail Car Trucks, Roseville Yard, California, 1973
Aftermath of the Roseville, California Rail Yard Munitions Explosion — Ordnance Bound for Vietnam, 1973
Aftermath of the Roseville Yard Bomb Train Explosion, Roseville, California, August 1973
Aftermath of the Roseville Yard Bomb Train Explosion, Roseville, California, 1973
Aftermath of Explosion at Roseville Rail Yard, Bombs Bound for Vietnam, 1973
Damaged Aerial Bomb Casing at Roseville Yard Disaster Site, California, 1973
Aftermath of the Roseville Rail Yard Explosion, California, 1973
Wrecked Heinz Tank Car Amid Debris, Roseville Yard Disaster Aftermath, August 1973
Derailed Boxcar Wreckage, Roseville Yard Munitions Train Explosion, California, 1973
Wreckage at Roseville Yard Following the 1973 Bomb Train Explosion, Roseville, California, August 1973
