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I was witness to the clean up of a derailment during WW II. I don't remember the year, was about 1942 or 1943; I was only 7 or 8 years old. It was on the RI, Choctaw div., just east of McAlester, OK. My father worked on the Katy and took me out to watch the clean up. I can still see the scene, many cars wrecked.(probably many were wooden.) I can remember the steam engine laying on its side at the bottom of the roadbed bank. Some cargo I remember was butter, which was rationed. They were piling it up and burning it along with other debris. I remember dead cattle being pulled into piles. The site was heavily guarded . The site made an especially lasting impression on me because here was such a waste in times of such scarcity. Almost everything was rationed then. I never checked back as I grew up to get more details. wboatner
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