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
The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad was a Class I railroad company in the United States, with its last headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Its predecessor was established in 1865 under the name Union Pacifi
An 1881 advertisement for the line
Share of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, issued 1904
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad bridge over Red River (postcard, c. 1911)
MKT #1006, a Baldwin DS-4-4-1000, on display in Parsons, Kansas