These are wicked and miserable accidents and derailments, some of them large-scale, caused by a single error of machinist or controller, big enough to be recorded in history books... And yet, multitudes of bystanders keep looking upon such carnage with morbid fascination, lost in time and perhaps in their mind, wondering what really took place and how the catastrophe unfolded.
Your faithful black-n-white silent-movie renditions of these events... trains were more widespread than automobiles, so train wrecks were all over the place:
