Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Excitement in Waco-- Not Just High-Water Rescues!
Though Waco is almost always the scene of some kind of tomfoolery, 1896 may have been the high point for highly dangerous highjincks.
In that year, promoters came up with the idea of smashing two trains into one another for the entertainment of people gathered for the event. A special town, Crush, Texas was created, and 40,000 people traveled from all parts of the state to see the debacle. The locomotives were given four miles of track to build up speed, and the collision was tremendous. Three people were killed by the debris, in fact.
It must be true, since there is a historical marker...
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Practice court is kind of like that, only with one train and a guy who is just kind of standing there knowing a train will come hit him while everyone else watches.
# posted by 
: 11:32 AM
: 11:32 AM
Maybe this was the original idea for the particle super collider that was built and finally activated in Switzerland last week.
That staged crash sounds like a really, really bad idea . . . you do wonder if it actually happened, but it's probably tough to get one of those historical markers put up if it DIDN't happen.
# posted by : 4:08 PM
: 4:08 PM
There's a whole bunch of photos of the staged crash, its staging and the aftermath over in the basement of the Masonic Temple where the last City Breakfast was held.
# posted by : 11:18 PM
: 11:18 PM
There was alcohol involved.
I think the train crash went bad because the engineers were texting at the time
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I think the train crash went bad because the engineers were texting at the time
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