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BFI Fundamentalism vs Evolution (1925) steam train crash

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This is a film of a head on steam train crash made in 1925 was staged at Monkeyville to typify the clash in USA between adherants of the Bible and followers of Darwin. All America is watching the blaze of conflict between science and the scriptures. This still topical film was made around the time of the Scopes Monkey trial in the USA and features a close up of Fundamentalist Mr. W. J. Bryan. Original footage courtesy of the British Film Institute (BFI) under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence.

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

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

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  • those beautiful engines gone forever D:

  • I love this vid!

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  • @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.

  • Just like Jackass! but 80 something years ago!

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

  • @4202EJW

    Waste?

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

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

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

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

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