Lightweight car 2, "Quindaro" ended up in Maltby Creek in an accident on August 19 1937. Caption from a news article: <br /><br /> "Workmen are seen attempting to raise a trolley car which fell into Maltoy Creek, near Wolcott KS, when a trestle undermined by flood waters gave way. Seven men and two women who were in the car when it plunged 25 feet into the flood creek, escaped injury and were rescued quickly."

Wolcott

Kansas City, Leavenworth and Western

Lightweight car 2, "Quindaro" ended up in Maltby Creek in an accident on August 19 1937. Caption from a news article:

"Workmen are seen attempting to raise a trolley car which fell into Maltoy Creek, near Wolcott KS, when a trestle undermined by flood waters gave way. Seven men and two women who were in the car when it plunged 25 feet into the flood creek, escaped injury and were rescued quickly."

Courtesy the Bill Volkmer collection

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