This reminds me of the story about people setting up a picnic area to watch the first battle of the US civil war. As any normal person might expect, it did not turn out well . . .
The battle you're referring to is First Manassas or First Bull Run, and no they didn't picnic on the battlefield, the spectators were at least a mile or more from the fighting. No civilian casualties were recorded.
@@terrybungey5696 It was much closer. One buggy and horse was destroyed by confederate shells, one onlooker (Congressman Ely) was taken prisoner, and the rest of the civilians joined the routed Union Army is a panicked retreat. History refers to the incident as the "Picnic Battle", and for good reason. Cheers ;)
And you wonder why the personal injury lawsuit craziness is so popular in the US. To be fair, their stunts were just the attention-seeking escapades of the influencers of their day.
Surprisingly this “accident” was not as stupid as you may think. They brought in a lot of publicity, and customers to the railroads. Also if you think this is crazy you should stay away from early day railroading.
Not really. I'm pretty sure they used old trains barelly working, fixed them fast so they will work for a few day more and they crash them and cashed the money.
I'm a railfan (railfan vernacular for "train nerd") who lives in Texas, and even I didn't know about this intentional train wreck in my home state, much less the railroad that orchestrated it! Imagine trying to figure out how much this cost to just wreck some trains in the middle of nowhere. Great video!
Yep. Today more than two would probably be killed in car accidents by just driving to the event. Way more spectators were killed during car races or airshows, and we didn't stop doing these.
British Railways staged a major train crash several years ago on the Old Dalbury test track in Nottinghamshire, and filmed it from several angles, but that was for a very sensible reason: a large mainline deisel loco hauling an artificially weighted (to simulate passengers) 3 coach train, was ran at high speed into a nuclear waste flask (container) (which had NO nuclear material inside), in order to test the surviveability of the flask. The impact almost completely destroyed the almost 100 ton loco, and the carriages, but the flask showed almost no signs of damage.
A different sort of monumentaly dumb railway accident was Hixon 1968. Oh, Eskify, you won't believe how stupidly stupid it was. Everyone involved was just plain beaten by the stupid stick.
@@EskifyHe's right; the Hixon disater was totally avoidable. British Railways put in a new type of (unmanned, automatic) level crossing, and gave plenty of information to the police, who promptly ignored all of it, + there were warning and safety procedure notices in full view at the crossing, AND a free to use telephone there for anyone with an exceptional or abnormal load to notify the signalman before they used the crossing, but these were all ignored by the road crews transporting an enormous transformer when they came to the crossing. Their police escort also ignored all the signs and the telephone, so the railway authorities had no idea that such an enormous, heavy, slow moving load was about to cross a main, high speed railway line, and the road users had NO thought about the possibility of approaching trains. Then their transporter grounded, and was stuck on the railway line, & moments later a high speed passenger train arrived....
Can’t imagine this video would have too many likes from people in Greece - given the “recent head on” - I hope the injured are receiving the best of care - if anyone had told me this phenomenon of train crashing had existed at one point, I would have dismissed it as highly unlikely - then, again, in Elizabethan England the “bear pit” - a bear chained down in a pit - and its struggle to fight off several ferocious dogs - was thought to be wholesome entertainment - even Shakespeare may have taken “a peak” at such proceedings !
Not only did the camera guy lose and I but he failed to get the glory shot. He snapped that picture one second to early. Though it is a cool picture it would have been nice to have both right before and the split-second the explosion went off
The dumbest event in history was probably when a man got scammed and wrote it on a block to some merchant, then the merchant store all the complaints in his home. Now, we know this dude because of the complaints
Do you know the name of the event or anywhere so I can see this for myself. I offer you the Dai Hong Dan Incident when North Korea and the US teamed up against Somalian Pirates.
Show the headlines this is indeed old train footage but I understood this as Thomas Edison testing his new motion picture camera invention on the crash pictures.
WOOT! Eskify is like a baby blanket that makes funny jokes about absurd and strange and historical things when you click on it. It'd be cool to see a feature-length Eskify! like, an hour and a half of you talking shit visiting the biggest ghost-hunting locations or.. You could partake in a UN meeting on behalf of the entire internet or something
Regrettably, incidents such as this were not uncommon during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as steam locomotives were quite plentiful and no one gave a second thought to crashing two for the sake of spectacle.
Boiler plate clips of many scenes, not the one being discussed. Accompanied by dramatic britiah accent. Typical RU-vid click bait fodder. No actual film of the crash in question.
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