If you like train wrecks, this video will get your steam up!
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Fascinating - tks Lou. The recoloring of the old black n white images really brings them to life.
Cheers
N
One thing I always love about these old photos is the people posing for the photographs!
Interesting…a lot of wrecks out of the Boston area.
Figured I would add to the thread …
…and there’s still steam coming out of some of those wrecks!
Folks;
The only wreck I was ever involved in happened the summer after I turned 21. I was then able to run the locomotive on Hershey Park’s Dry Gulch RR legally. Saturday of my first week running, I came down the trestle to a gapped spring switch. I threw the air brakes for all they were worth, but the mass of a full load of passengers was too much to stop. The locomotive ran straight up the center of that switch, finally coming to rest with her pilot truck over the frog of the switch! Probably the bumpiest ride I ever had in my life!
Wasn’t my fault. Leaves and other junk had gotten into the spring mechanism during the winter, finally causing it to jam. I did learn to take the approach to that switch more slowly, however.
Regards, David Meashey
Is it just me or is it really possible for that loco to have ever operated with that piston rod inside the connecting rod??? 
Hollywood, you’re not the only one. Piston rod failure of a NYC Niagara (Oct 1949) - Classic Trains Magazine - Railroad History, Vintage Train Videos, Steam Locomotives, Forums
And one for the history buff Google News Archive Search
to me it looks like there are two different connecting rods.
on the inside between first and second wheel, on the outside between second wheel and the posterior wheels. and the piston rod sandwiched between the two.
my bad miss read the photo Thanks for that link Bill seems I’m not the only one.
On close inspection, I believe the connecting rod for the front driver is behind the drive rod on the pivot point on the second driver.
Oops, too slow. You already noticed.
Today a man drives his vehicle into the moving train on the B&O rail line in Ridley Twp. where I grew up.
Heroic work by the Ridley policewoman.
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