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A rare set of historical photographs show the carnage from a train crash that was done on purpose for entertainment’s sake in the late 19th-century.


A remarkable image from 1896 taken in Buckeye Park in Ohio shows a large crowd of people wearing bowler hats clambering on the wreckage of a huge impact, with the name “A.L. Streeter” written on the side of the locomotive.

A.L. Streeter was an equipment salesman from Ohio who put on one of the very first staged train crashes. At that time the public was fascinated by train crashes on the relatively new railroad system, and sensing an opportunity Streeter laid the formula for this insane attraction.

Organizers would find a suitable location, then lay a mile-long track, find two locomotives that were no longer fit for purpose, and a brave group of engineers would start them off at either end of the line. The trains would reach full throttle and then crash head first into each other at speeds approaching 50 mph.

The spectacle was lapped up by the paying public and the event was often used at the main event of a fair. Unsurprisingly, it went horribly wrong at one of the shows.

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Why else would a grown man play with trains.

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Let's be honest, people would also flock to see that today.

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Let's be honest, people would also flock to see that today.

the perfect intro to a Demolition Derby!

Let's be honest, people would also flock to see that today.


Better this than public executions.

I confess I might watch an engine train collision once, under those controlled circumstances.

But I'd never do it with electric trains sets.

That's just mental.

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Not as antique as OP suggests. It was a "thing" for a number of years...

1913
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1925
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1932
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1930s
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big locomotives had been around for over 40 years by 1896.

....trains....planes.....automobiles.....

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more recently, they derailed a train for The Fugitive