locomotive collision... must have been at very low speed, probably they couldn't apply enough brakes to avoid the hit.

I have no idea how long I've been looking at this photo, and not posting it. I can't recall where it came from 

A train crash in the movie "Hugo" replicates the famous Oct 1895 Granville-Paris Express wreck photo... pretty cool to include that in a movie

here is the original

The engine careened across almost 98 ft of the station concourse, crashed through a 2 foot thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 33 ft below, where it stood on its nose. All on board the train survived, five sustaining injuries: two passengers (out of 131), the fireman and two conductors; however, one woman on the street below was killed by falling masonry. The accident was caused by a faulty Westinghouse brake and the engine drivers who were trying to make up for lost time. A conductor incurred a 25 franc penalty and the engine driver a 50 franc penalty.
Via: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg

I've posted that old photo before, because it's just amazing to me. Trains falling out of buildings... not very often that happens http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-of-most-impressive-photos-ive-seen.html

trains, planes, and automobiles... all wreck, and someone has put the photos of the wrecks together on a Tumblr

http://framework.latimes.com/2011/11/14/santa-fe-locomotive-goes-through-wall/

for the story on the Sata Fe

I'm only posting a couple that I was interested in, black adn whites of old cars, but most of the Tumblr is color and new vehicles http://fuckyeahwrecks.tumblr.com/

The Interurban Era by William Middleton, is available online complete from cover to cover

the Cincinatti and Lake Eire

  

 This isn't a passenger car. St Louis municipal codes were a problem, so they made this engine look like a passenger car. Expensive, sneaky, but effective

Two engine drivers had a contest to see who could get out of the railyard... they were pretty stubborn at carrying on despite the obvious equality of power, size, and brakes.   Gloversville New York

 New Haven railway 1896, this car seats 80

Provo Utah, 1917

see it all at http://www.archive.org/stream/interurbanera00midd#page/n5/mode/2up