For anyone who really likes vintage trains, here ya go. This is the 1903 flick called The Great Train Robbery from Thomas Edison. Its a great Vintage film with a wicked looking train… being robbed by some old west crooks.

Very, Very cool vintage western film

Here is some background info on The Great Train Robbery.

The Great Train Robbery was directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter - a former Thomas Edison cameraman. It was a primitive one-reeler action picture, about 10 minutes long, with 14-scenes, filmed in November 1903 - not in the western expanse of Wyoming but on the East Coast in various locales in New Jersey (at Edison’s New York studio, at Essex County Park in New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna railroad).The plot was inspired by a true event that occurred on August 29, 1900, when four members of George Leroy Parker’s (Butch Cassidy) ‘Hole in the Wall’ gang halted the No. 3 train on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks toward Table Rock, Wyoming. The bandits forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars from the rest of the train and then blew up the safe in the mail car to escape with about $5,000 in cash.

hey, just found this… haha, a year or 2 too late, but great train wreck pics none-the-less.

There has been a train derailment in Washington, DC. It is on the CSX tracks over the Anacostia River. DC Fire & EMS Operations Chief Lawrence Schultz said about 10 cars, of an approximately 90 car coal train, have derailed, with at least 6 of the cars falling off the bridge into the river. There are no reports of injuries. A command post has been set up at the skating rink in Anacostia Park on the east side of the river.

Early reports indicate this may involve a runaway train, or portion of a train, but Chief Schultz could not confirm that information.

Chief Schultz, speaking at a 5:00 p.m. press conference, said the first units on the scene, shortly after 3:00 p.m., were the department’s fire boats. Schultz said, for the first half-hour, firefighters searched for possible victims. After consulting with CSX, it was determined there were no victims. Firefighters made sure the train on the west side of the bridge was secure and also placed about one-thousand feet of booms in the river on both sides of the bridge.

Schultz reports there is a sheen on the water that is petroleum based and speculates it might be some sort of brake oil. No locomotives derailed.

There is concern for the structural stability of the bridge. Chief Schultz said as soon as possible, they hope to give the okay to move some of the undamaged cars off of the bridge to reduce the weight on the span. Federal and local transportation officials are on the scene.

This same railroad bridge was shut down for a while late last year so CSX could repair structural problems. Also, the track and signaling in that area, and through nearby Benning Yard, have recently been upgraded.

check out the train wreck from DC video 

Well, it’s not like they didn’t warn the moose, or tried to sneak up on it! The dumb ass Moose just wouldn’t freakin move! Moose Wreck… Hope he’s got good insurance, or didn’t have any expensive Lasik Eye Surgery done recently, because if he did, it’s all for nothing. Basically because I think his eyes are somewhere of in the woods as it was squashed like a grape! Why didn’t the Moose move?