fuckyeahwrecks
transportation gone awry
**two posts per day of a plane, train, auto, airship, streetcar etc that has come to an unfortunate end. (except in cases of breaking news).**
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train wreck in India
Hampi Express vs. freight train - Penukonda, India - 5/22/2012 - at least 24 fatalities.
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Photo reblogged from LIVE WITHOUT DEAD TIME
Train wreck in Columbus, OH, 1940s
That is my grandfather holding the bat
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NS Sprinter Lighttrain vs. NS VRIM Intercity train - Sloterdijk, Amsterdam - 4/21/2012 - 1 fatality.
The driver of the lighttrain missed a red light; the crash is under investigation.
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Train derailment - Burlington, Ontario - 2/26/2012 - 3 fatalities.
As of writing, three passengers were injured seriously but all survived. The three fatalities were all engineers in the locomotive section. The black box has been recovered and investigations are ongoing.
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Train Wreck in Tallahassee, on the bridge over E. Lafayette.
The Florida Memory Project does not have a date listed.
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I drive under this almost every day!
In other news, your mistress of wrecks is moving on Monday, from Tally to Brooklyn. I am verrrrrrrry busy and the trip will take a week, but I will try to load the queue well in advance. I promise I will go to wreck sites like Park Slope and take pictures for you, followers. (Also *cough* I have a Museum Studies/Classics degree and need a job…)
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Photo reblogged from Atlanta History Center
FROM THE ARCHIVES-
View of the Royal Palm and Ponce de Leon train wreck in Rockmart, GA on December 23, 1926.
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1944: The SS Leopoldville is torpedoed by U-486 in the English Channel; over 760 soldiers are lost.
1953: An express train crossing the damaged Whangaehu River Bridge at Tangiwai, NZ is derailed, killing 151.
1971: LANSA Flight 508 breaks apart in mid-air over the Amazon in Peru; the sole survivor, Juliane Koepcke emerges from the jungle 10 days later.
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1952: A USAF C-124 crashes in Moses Lake, WA, with 87 fatalities.
1984: Over a million liters of petrol spill from a derailed freight train, starting the Summit Tunnel Fire.
1987: The passenger ferry MV Doña Paz collides with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait (Philippines); the collision and resulting fire kill over 4,000 people in the deadliest ferry accident of all time.
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Photo reblogged from How I Remember
Sept 12, 2008: Workers rescue passengers trapped inside a Metrolink rail car after a head-on crash with a Union Pacific freight train. The collision killed 25 people. (See my favorites from this collection here)
This picture is from the LA Times feature:
Capturing history as it was made: Los Angeles Times celebrates 130th anniversary -
Photo reblogged from NOT ON REX MANNING DAY!
Help, I’ve fallen and can’t get up!
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Photo reblogged from The Record Legacy
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Photo reblogged from take a minute
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Subway train vs. subway train - Shanghai, China - 9/27/2011 - at least 200 injuries, see coverage.
