July 17th, 1932 by busi2ness

Photography • Historical • posted on Jul 17, 2008

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On this day in 1932 my town was blown to pieces when a train carrying 1,200tons of dynamite destined for the mines, exploded just outside of town. The explosion happened just beyond where the railway masts disappear into the trees. Read here...
I received so many good comments about my stay in the bush during the previous photo, that I hereby invite all of you to consider an African Safari. Want to contact me? LOL
Thank you for the comments and visits to my previous upload:

Comments (101)

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three_grrr

4:23PM | Sat, 26 July 2008

Wow, only in Africa do these gorgeous skie appear! A very sad story of the explosion.

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MaraP

4:35PM | Sun, 27 July 2008

Impressive story and image!! 5+

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Digital_Mischief

10:06AM | Mon, 28 July 2008

Such gorgeous clouds!

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clam73

11:10AM | Mon, 28 July 2008

incredible story.....fantastic colors on this sunset.....great capture!

Liam.

2:52PM | Tue, 29 July 2008

very dramatic shot

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FriedaFelicia

6:34AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

I just love the intensity of the colours in the sky here. Totally intruiging image.

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frankman

2:20AM | Tue, 05 August 2008

Amazing shot! The dramatic sky is gorgeous!

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JeffG7BRJ

9:44AM | Tue, 05 August 2008

It looks like the explosion has just happened Piet, fantastic capture, there is something resembling a mushroom in the center there. It looks like nature has recreated the explosion for you Piet and how wierd for it to be same place same date. Spectacular work. Bravo!!!!!

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