On the Edge of Disaster: Vintage Train Wrecks in Stunning Detail

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How did he miss the GG1 in Union Station in Washington DC?

I dread to think how many staff and passengers lost their lives in these wrecks. The first image was, of course, a staged wreck for the Buster Keaton film "The General". The wreck at 6m.34s was at Maze Hill near Greenwich, London in 1958. Luckily the train ran into a rake of empty electric multiple units and the driver was unhurt

I like old train videos

So many photos with no info, that really sucks!

Just joined your site. Outstanding. Your photos are worth 10,000 words.

Paris 1895 ,une victime à déplorer ,la marchande du kiosque à journaux placé derrière le butoir de fin de voies ,freinage trop tardif

I’d be interested in seeing how they were able to remove and cleaning up the wreckage

That sure is a lot of wrecks! What were some of those trains even doing a story above the ground? Silly turn of the century engineers. I would imagine they were pretty much trash after leaving the tracks. Good thing they only cost like $1,000 back then. Lol

Why is the Texas the image for the first wreck? Wasn’t that a shot from 1926 from Buster Keaton’s; “The General” Movie?

IMAGINE how difficult it would have been back then to deal with the aftermath of these wrecks! Hard ENOUGH today!

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How was the wreckage from the earliest crashes removed without modern cranes?

I wish there was information given on what caused these wrecks, etc. Pics are worthless without the story

Great pix, thanks.
I must give a huge shout-out to the colorization. This usually looks pretty terrible on YT - especially for moving footage which is much harder to colorize than stills. The colorization here usually looks pretty natural and really sells the shot. Great work.

Love trains. Sad to see all these accidents

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The old soft trumpet really set the tone

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Stunning photos! Thank you for sharing these.

How on earth did they clear the debris in those days ❓

Hmmmmm...seems to be a lot of Mikados on the ground in these. Wonder if the 2-8-2 wheel arrangement had tracking problems?

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Don’t see this too much these days.

Thank you for not sharing your opinions and "facts" during the video. It bugs the shit out of me listening to people parrot whatever they find online and present it as gospel truth, but this was a nice change of pace.

I so enjoyed this video, especially the music. And thank you for not talking through it. 🦋🌷🌾😊

Yo this is a really good channel dude, thanks for entertaining me on this random Tuesday night, got a lil doobie burning with me in my time machine : )

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What an incredibly shitty video.

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The PRR Woodbridge NJ train wreck was the second largest wreck in US history, with the Circus Train wreck of 1918, the Hagenbeck-Wallice show, that wreck killed 86 and not one vicim could be identified, the Woodbridge wreck claimed a little over 80 due to several facors, one being speed, the other, the K4S' tender was not properly secured to the frame, actualy causing the derailment

Thank Goodness for Modern Photography that these images are burned into life Forever now with AI. Back then, it was painstakingly to produce pictures. Eastman Kodak was the First for instant pictures!

Train Stuff like this happened in Thomas and the

i think its worth noting that the first one was staged for a movie

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the first image was from the film "The Fugitive".

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This should've included the 1920 crash of Portland, OR where 2 SP red electric trains crashed head-on. The worst part is that both operators knew each other, and one of them died

The first image was from the movie "The General" with Buster Keaton. The film producer purchased three Civil War vintage steam locomotives, had them rebuilt, to use in the film.