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04/07/2013 01:39:32 PM |
BW... but... IN FOCUS! WOw!
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04/03/2013 06:49:24 PM |
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Train_Wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg Well that doesn't either, but it is there .
Try again - darn, no picture!
1895 derailment
Granville–Paris Express wreck on 22 October 1895.
Main article: Montparnasse derailment
The Gare Montparnasse became famous for the derailment on 22 October 1895 of the Granville–Paris Express, which overran the buffer stop. The engine careened across almost 30 metres (100 ft) of the station concourse, crashed through a 60-centimetre (2 ft) thick wall, shot across a terrace and smashed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 10 metres (33 ft) below, where it stood on its nose. Two of the 131 passengers sustained injuries, along with the fireman and two conductors. The only fatality was a woman on the street below who was killed by falling masonry.[4] The accident was caused by a faulty Westinghouse brake and the engine driver, who was trying to make up lost time.[5] A conductor was given a 25-franc fine and the engine driver a 50-franc fine.
At the end of the film Silver Streak the train crashes into the station in a similar way. The train crash and the picture featured in the 2007 children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and in its film adaptation, Hugo, where it was in one of Hugo's nightmares.[6] The picture of the accident is used as the cover page in the book An Introduction to Error Analysis by John Taylor. The story of the 1895 accident was referenced in the television series Thomas and Friends in "A Better View For Gordon". The event is depicted in the comic book The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec.[7] The accident was also featured on the front cover of American hard rock band Mr. Big's 1991 album, Lean into It, and on the cover of Dutch anarcho-punk band The Ex's 1991 album Scrabbling at the Lock.
Replicas of the train crash are recreated outside the Mundo a Vapor ("Steam World") museum chain buildings in Brazil, in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, in the city of Canela.[8]
I'll try another link
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895_2.jpg Yay! These worked!
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04/03/2013 06:45:55 PM |
Can't help but think of this. Link didn't work.
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04/01/2013 08:50:34 PM |
| Loved this, still do. Reinforces the fact that your photography is better than your parking. |
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04/01/2013 08:50:31 PM |
| Drunk driving always has consequences.... |
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04/01/2013 01:09:34 AM |
| No sense of humour here on dpc. I thought this deserved a to 10 finish. |
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03/31/2013 10:23:33 PM |
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03/31/2013 08:21:48 PM |
A catastrophic event! Ha. Great find. I was looking for something like this but when you need it, it never appears.  |
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03/31/2013 06:34:44 PM |
| ... roll over. I'm enjoying this immensely. Great find. |
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03/31/2013 06:26:09 PM |
glorious composition. banal yet apocalyptic.
Posthumous Red Ribbon
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03/31/2013 07:38:51 AM |
| It was meant to happen, great image. |
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