A classic photo shows a steam locomotive hanging nose-first from the second story of a what appears to be a train station, apparently having crashed through the wall. Is this photo real or fake? Although it seems at first that this could be one of the many amazing Photoshop manipulations that you see on the internet almost daily, this picture is 100% authentic and shows an 1895 train wreck in Paris. The derailment occurred on October 22, 1895 when the Granville-Paris Express overran a buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse terminal in Paris. The accident happened at approximately 4:00 PM local time when the the locomotive suffered air brake failure. It was speeding while entering the station because it was several minutes late and the driver was trying to make up time. Amazingly – despite crashing through stops, traveling 100 feet through the station concourse, breaking through a two-foot cement wall, and plunging 33 feet nose-first to the street below – none of the 131 passengers or crew aboard were killed. Five people on the train and one person on the street sustained minor injuries. A woman on the ground was killed by falling debris. The woman, Marie-Augustine Aguilard, had been standing in for her husband, a newspaper [...]
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