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4/10
Mass Destruction For Your Viewing Pleasure
boblipton26 October 2019
If you're one of those people who think a good movie consists of more than a pretty, underdressed young woman and mass destruction, then this movie will not be for you. That's because there's no pretty young woman, dressed or not, just two railroad trains rushing at each other with a tremendous smash. Nothing else. Zip. Nought.

Here's proof that the obsession with explosions and pretty girls is not new. Some one thought it was a good idea to film this, and apparently it was popular enough that copies survive today. Nor was it the first of its kind, although some of the earlier versions used model trains.

Actually, there is more than the crash. Afterwards, people gather around to see what's going on. I suppose that gives an excuse to the audience.
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8/10
Railroad collision as entertainment
jhaugh2 July 2003
Even today people rubberneck at highway crash sites so - given that human nature - it is easy to see why the Edison organization decided, in 1904, that a train wreck would be a good subject for a movie. Nineteenth-century locomotives were no longer needed. The Pennsylvania railroad was more than glad to give some to Edison rather than to pay to have them sent to the junk yard for demolition. So on August 27, 1904 - in Revere, Massachusetts - Two cameras were set up and two old steam locomotives were positioned to head toward each other at speed. After getting them going, the engineers bailed out. They collide. A closer view is added to show the crumpled locomotives, with steam and smoke bellowing, as spectators rush to get a closer look - so we know that this was a staged event.
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8/10
Real simple...craash!
Vigilante-40728 January 1999
Nice little film that lives up to the title. Two trains collide head-on. End of film.

That's it. But it is a nice little bit of history. It was made by Thomas Edison's film company, and is available all over the web (in avi & MPEGs) and on video in many places.
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