Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:46:23 -0600 (CST)

Author: Dale Stille

Subject: Train Collision Video (fwd)

Post:


Tappers,

Does anyone know of any good footage that would help with the following
inquiry?? Please reply directly to myself or Matt.

Thanks,
Dale Stille
U of Iowa

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:58:15 -0600
From: Matt Harding
To: dale-stille@uiowa.edu
Subject: Train Collision Video

Hi Dale,

I'm trying to track down video footage of an intentional steam
locomotive collision that I believe took place at the Iowa State Fair
pre-WWII. Do you know the clip I'm talking about, and even better, do
you happen to have a copy? I'm trying to find some good non-car crash
collision videos for our unit on momentum, and that clip would be pretty
cool. I did get a pretty cool link to a government site on
crashworthiness that had some nice video footage of modern train crash
tests

http://www.volpe.dot.gov/sdd/crashworthy.html

but the clip with the big steam engines would be more impressive ( I
have no idea how it didn't make in onto the cinema classics discs!)

Thanks,

Matt Harding

Iowa City West



"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a
very narrow field."


- Niels Bohr


From pauld@exploratorium.edu Fri Nov 19 15:04:53 2004