p411.1_Explosion

Digital image of B.C.R. propane explosion. Caption on back . . . “In the spring of 1978 Howie Myers and I were hauling gravel from Suicide Hill to widen the highway at One Mile Lake. From Suicide Hill it looked like Signal Hill had become a volcano with a tower of black smoke. Howie was running the loader so he jumped in with me and when we got to One Mile Lake we could see it was over by the RR crossing in by Donny Blundell’s place. I decided to take a picture of that smoke and just as I clicked camera up went a huge flame. Talk about a lucky break! Turned out to be a train wreck and a car of propane caught fire and blew up. Nearly 2 miles from where we were to that crossing I think. Joe Antonelli”