Very good series! While I fully appreciate the spectacularity of train wrecks, I much more lament the destruction of so many antique locomotives. Better to go out with a (literal) bang than be ignominiously scrapped, but preservation is preferable to me. These wrecks seem like vandalism for profit... which they seldom made! Thanks for posting this series!
I wonder if they staged a collision today if it would be attended especially with using radio control on diesel locomotives to allow a higher speed head on.
I knew the Crush incident had ended tragically - and my only surprise was that it hadn't hppened earlier. A locomotive boiler under steam is basically a rolling bomb; damage the boiler shell and...... bye bye. The Denver shunt, from the names of the two railroads involved, suggests they were narrow gauge. Do you know if this was so?
Yeah why what did they just find these and stold them and just wrecked them that would be a lot of money to waste especially back then if they built them to wreck them the story doesn’t make sense I smell bs there’s more to the story !!!
Enjoyed immensely. It's amazing what people will do for encouragement.
Very good series! While I fully appreciate the spectacularity of train wrecks, I much more lament the destruction of so many antique locomotives. Better to go out with a (literal) bang than be ignominiously scrapped, but preservation is preferable to me. These wrecks seem like vandalism for profit... which they seldom made! Thanks for posting this series!
Well said.
Was eagerly awaiting part 3 of this lol
I wonder if they staged a collision today if it would be attended especially with using radio control on diesel locomotives to allow a higher speed head on.
17:31, each engine weighed 6500 lb? That's only three and a quarter tons,, isn't that a bit light?
Just a slip of the tongue, no doubt. The text has the correct 65,000 pounds.
I'm surprised that you didn't include really any information regarding the staged locomotive wrecks at the Minnesota State Fair.
There were two people killed by flying shrapnel, and they actually did another one of these crazy events?
I knew the Crush incident had ended tragically - and my only surprise was that it hadn't hppened earlier. A locomotive boiler under steam is basically a rolling bomb; damage the boiler shell and...... bye bye. The Denver shunt, from the names of the two railroads involved, suggests they were narrow gauge. Do you know if this was so?
I could recreate these crash scenes with some really cheap Lionel MPC era train engines and cars on my TH-cam channel.
Wonder if more recent crashes would be covered, like this one: th-cam.com/video/ZY446h4pZdc/w-d-xo.html
Yeah why what did they just find these and stold them and just wrecked them that would be a lot of money to waste especially back then if they built them to wreck them the story doesn’t make sense I smell bs there’s more to the story !!!
YOU'RE DEFINITELY an Uncle Fester wannabe 👍👍👍...