I don't know anything about this picture but I thought it was cool so I wanted to share it. Somebody had a bad day.



Thanks,
Randy

nice one Randy!

just what was needed to brighten a long day at work.

Did you know the picture is of the (in)famous Montparnasse derailment in Paris in 1895?

Russ

Glad it helped your day.

Thank you for sharing the link. I didn't know anything about the picture at all. I just saw it in with a bunch of other pictures with a theme of "having a bad day". Thought it was cool and wanted to share it with everyone.

Thanks,
Randy

Great find, Randy!

Just a few minutes ago I was at the library reading a book about the wabash. It has a section about Derailments, Washouts, and 'Cornfield Meets' (a.k.a., head-on collisions). Some other pix of bad days!

I seem to recall an old before/after sequence of a Shay Locomotive. The first was of the Shay parked on a wooden trestle with its Engineer and Fireman posing in front for the camera; the second was of the Shay at the bottom of the ravine amongst wooden timbers after the bridge failed under its weight! I can't recall if the crew survived or not.

Anybody seen that disaster floating around the inter-web?

Cheers!🍺
—mike

I always wondered about that photo. It was on the cover of one of my textbooks for "Instrumentation & Theory of Experiments" back at Boston University in 1989.

Jim

Never will understand why so many train stations were built as dead-end rather than run through. I know, I know - takes up less real estate, cheaper!