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hey guys welcome episode 58 of macabre misfortunes

yeah traicy we've all heard the expression that something was like a train

wreck you just can't look away or something similar to that effect what

no wait to see what it is okay well i'm gonna teach you where that expression

comes from like a train wreck yeah where people say it's like a train wreck I

couldn't look away or you said look okay go ahead there's there's actually it

didn't come from what you think it did so the saying actually comes from one

of the most infamous publicity stunts of all time the crash at crush so back

in the 1800s whenever there was a train wreck it made headline news all over

the country even if there were no injuries people were fascinated by train

wrecks so an agent for the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad company which that's

a long ass name it is they called it Katie for short and I K. A. T. Y. I have no

clue why the letters don't spell that out but anyway this guy by the name of

George crush came up with what he deemed to be a without a doubt money making

idea he was big fan of PT Barnum so he said I got something we can do if

people like train wrecks let's give him a train wreck so he suggested that the

company set up an actual train crash for people to watch the thought was to

build a separate track at a location in Texas it was actually about three miles

south of the city of West Texas the plan was to have two separate trains collide

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