Crash at Crush

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:17 pm

Story of a staged locomotive collision that went wrong in 1896. Two M-K-T 4-4-0s destroyed at the event in Texas.

http://www.lsjunction.com/facts/crush.htm
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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:20 pm

An electronic version of the Scott Joplin tune composed for the event. Not his most melodic work, but interesting.

> Story of a staged locomotive collision that
> went wrong in 1896. Two M-K-T 4-4-0s
> destroyed at the event in Texas.

http://www.lsjunction.com/midi/crush.mid
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Robin · **Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 11:09 am

Another souce of info is the link below. The place called Crush was set up just for the Katy event. The gave free train rides to the event in the hopes of selling land.

CRUSH LINK
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