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The picture with two green tram cars is most probably taken in the AnsaldoBreda workshop.
The damaged vehicle on the right was involved in a crash in Milan, near Porta Romana, on 10 october 2008: it derailed due to an error of the driver, who was using his mobile phone while driving.
After going out of the track, the Jumbotram hit another tram, an older model made in 1927 (those tram, called "Carrelli" are one of the symbols of the city).
Noone was injured, but people on the older vehicle got blocked inside the car due to a failure of emergency opening of the doors.
http://milano.corriere.it/cronache/articoli/2008/10_Ottobre/13/scontro_tram_milano_bligny_sabotino_atm_feriti.shtml
The video at the end isn't a train hitting a concrete wall, it is a crash test for nuclear waste transport containers. The container is on a flatbed train car that has been turned on it's side, and the train hits the container (the yellow box)
Sorry if you know this already, but it has happened that trains that are to be scrapped have been cleaned up and then dumped in the sea to make artificial reefs for wildlife and divers to enjoy. That may explain the underwater image. Or maybe not! :-)
The crushed black tanker car was the result of implosion. "The general-purpose tank car in the photo below was being steam cleaned in preparation for maintenance. The job was still in progress at the end of the shift so the employee cleaning the car decided to block in the steam. The car had no vacuum relief so as it cooled, the steam condensed and the car imploded." Keep in mind that steam has around 1600 times the volume of condensed water.
Two links:
How tank car implosions work.
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2008/04/22/how-tank-car-implosions-work/
Lessons Learned in 2001: Over/Under Pressure Relief Required for System Safety from the Richland Operations Office Department of Energy
http://www.hanford.gov/RL/?page=525&parent=506
I'd have to watch the episode again, but the underwater subway car is probably a screencap from an episode of CSI: New York. It' looks awfully familiar...
The train on the "unfinished" bridge is out there deliberately; there's nothing that will stop it from backing up in that image.
The imploded tank car might be from a test/demonstration that was done - I'd have to dig out the video again and see if it's the same location.
Train disaster happen quite often, luckily mostly without fatalities. One example for a catastrophe is the disaster in Eschede/Germany, where a high-speed train derailed and collided with a bridge, killing 101 people on board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster
http://nedies.jrc.it/uploadedimages_nedies/Eschede1.jpg
montparnasse is a station in paris, france, quite in the center of the city. its original name is "gare montparnasse". from there, trains depart to the south-western part of france.
(concerning img #4. thought you should make that clear. it really happend in the heart of paris)
Thank you WrathofDog (cool nick!) post updated with a video link; good info, all - updated.
"Nowhere to go, can't backup either" Is a photoshop job, and a terrible one at that. You don't even have to look that closely to tell.
The CN on the side of the train stands for Canadian National (not pacific).
You should look up the train wreck in Prince George, British Columbia about 2 years ago. We all stood in the park and watched the train burning across the river. You could see the smoke all around town.
Picture #6 in the Russian section shows two rubber tired wheels attached to some wreckage between the two trains. The spiked objects to the right are diamond harrows which are not quite obsolete farm equipment. There's another harrow in the center further back and a badly bent on on the left. The wreckage with wheels is the harrow cart. It looks like a farmer was crossing the track when he shouldn't have.
Ad. Utterly Surreal: Tilt-Shift Train Wrecks
I'm not convinced... these look as actulal tilt-shift photos, not "PS trickery". Of course tilt-shift can be immitated by retouching a photo on PS or other software but why bother? The fun You get with a tilt shift lens (such as PC-E Nikkor 24mm for example) is worth a lot more than time spent on your PS. The PS tilt-shift retouched photos will NEVER look as good as taken with an actual perspective-correction lens.
Peace to You all. I love this blog.
The photo of former New York City rollingstock unit 9577 is *definitely* not a train wreck. As someone mentioned before, this is one of the repurposed Redbirds that have been stripped of usable parts, cleaned, and dumped off the eastern seaboard. Please get it right, or note it.
If you're going to show an accident involving NYC rollingstock, at least show a real accident
Great info, Mark - updated
Check this out.. Two photos of the only train wreck in US history where four steam locomotive trains collided... occurred at East Thompson Connecticut, Dec.4, 1891.
http://www.ahrtp.com/HallofFameOnline2/pages/NYNEtrainwreck.htm
http://www.ahrtp.com/HallofFameOnline2/pages/trainwreck1.htm
Nowhere to go, can't backup either:
This is the BNSF bridge over the Columbia River at Wishram,Washington.
Image #31 happens in Malaysia, it was on local news. It was the end of the rail, but the train couldn't stop because of brake malfunction.
were the 1000 trains that sunk in the UN States pulled out?
@ujanja They were intentionally put there to encourage reef growth on the otherwise flat and featureless ocean floor along the eastern seaboard off the coast of the Carolinas. This reef growth has also been great for tourism and fishing in the area.
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