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  "textContent": "On September 15, 1896, the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad crashed two unmanned locomotives into each other at speed as a public spectacle. The Crash at Crush was the idea of passenger agent William Crush, who built a temporary town for the event and charged nothing to watch — the railroad made its money selling tickets on excursion trains to the site. — Read the rest \n\nThe post In 1896 a railroad crashed two trains head-on for fun and killed two spectators appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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