Crash at Crush
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The Crash at Crush was a one-day publicity stunt in the U.S. state of Texas that took place on September 15, 1896, in which two uncrewed locomotives were crashed into each other head-on at high speed.
The locomotive boilers exploding during impact
The locomotives brought together at about 5 pm for publicity photos
The moment of impact. Photographer Joe Deane was blinded in one eye by a flying bolt seconds after taking this photograph.
The crowd explores the wreckage
Telescoping (rail cars)
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In a railway accident, telescoping occurs when the underframe of one vehicle overrides that of another, and smashes through the second vehicle's body. The term is derived from the resulting appearance
Crash at Crush
…of fractured metal and kindling wood, except one car on the rear of each train, which had been left untouched. The engines had both been completely telescoped, and contrary to experience in such cases, instead of rising in the air from the force of the blow, were just flattened out. There was nothing about…
The aftermath of the June 2009 Washington Metro train collision
The aftermath of the 1898 St Johns rail accident, where the rear two carriages of a passenger train were telescoped by being hit at 8 mph (13 km/h) by a following train.
Cars involved in the Mud Run disaster, October 10, 1888