9 min
The Gentle Art of the Art Smash Field of Streams
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Did you know that from 1896 to the 1930s, there was a traveling show that purposefully smashed locomotives together - head on - for the entertainment of massive crowds? It got me to thinking about how smashing two ideas together can be just a fun, and you can never quite predict what you'll get from the wreckage. Atlas Obscura story: For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimeshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staged-train-wrecksThis is an audio reading of the post...
Did you know that from 1896 to the 1930s, there was a traveling show that purposefully smashed locomotives together - head on - for the entertainment of massive crowds? It got me to thinking about how smashing two ideas together can be just a fun, and you can never quite predict what you'll get from the wreckage. Atlas Obscura story: For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimeshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staged-train-wrecksThis is an audio reading of the post...
9 min