averypottermarcholasmoth:

tahthetrickster:

kawaiite-mage:

justthesource:

tilthat:

TIL in 1896 a temporary, one-day city was named in Texas called Crush, where two locomotives were to be smashed head-on for purposes of spectacle. It was, for a few hours, the 2nd largest city in TX with 40k attendees. The collision caused engine boilers to explode, resulting in death and injuries.

via reddit.com

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas

you could just do shit back then

the real plot twist of the article was that the town wasn’t named crush because they were crushing two trains together, but because the guy who came up with the idea was literally named crush

that man had a specific purpose and he fulfilled it