BFI Fundamentalism vs Evolution (1925) steam train crash

[pennyf9]

Just like Jackass! but 80 something years ago!

[fireburst102]

IT WAS 1925!!! They were probably built for this event! THEY COULD MAKE NEW ONES!!! There weren't diesels yet.

[McLarenMercedes]

@fireburst102

Actually there WERE diesels in 1925, but at the time they were nowhere near as common as steam locomotives. They used diesel locomotives in rocky countries like Switzerland in 1912 already, because filling up water for the boiler was best suited to flat plains. Also the Trans-Australian Railway built 1912-1917 was planned with diesel locomotives in mind, since steam locomotives had to pass the vast desert of the Australian outback.

Electric locomotives existed too at this time.

[lasoo88]

The driver would have had a better chance of surviving by jumping out.

[4202EJW]

Dude was the engineer still in the cab!!!! wooow!! dude wat a waist of engines!

[MrBooojangles]

@4202EJW Probably not as it was all a stunt.

[4202EJW]

I really don't care if it was a stunt or not it's a waste of 2 engines!!

[STILLAVRIL1]

@4202EJW

Waste?

[puncheex]

LOL, the title card near the end : "William J. Bryan - Founder of Fundamentalism". I always thought that yahweh was pretty insistent on that.

[AlteredPerspectives]

Yeah, that monumental waste really proved a lot. Not!

[SteffanLlwyd]

Does anyone really still believe the World was created in Six Days?!

[sammymcjammy]

wtf wtf is that sh!t its cra9

[Dombomb3131]

holy shit  :|

[CGiordano464]

didnt people watching get killed

[TheDepotCat]

A clash that is still going on today.

Shame about those old engines.

[CSXboy1]

those beautiful engines gone forever D:

[skullcrusher301]

@CSXboy1 no one cared about steam when this was done.

[adcomamps]

the engineer should of jumped out the window

[omyto21]

I love this vid!