Train wreck

Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track, when the wheels of train come off the track or when a boiler explosion occurs.

Train accidents have often been widely covered in popular media and in folklore.

A head-on collision between two trains is colloquially called a "cornfield meet" in the United States.

[1] Train accidents can occur due to a range of factors, including one or more of the following:

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Versailles rail accident in 1842, 57 people were killed including the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville .
Montparnasse derailment with one fatality at Gare Montparnasse in Paris, 1895
Wheels from Engine Tender#013 which was destroyed in a wreck in 1907 on a bridge over Village Creek between Silsbee and Beaumont, Texas . The wheels are on display in the Arizona Railway Museum .