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lemmy.world

Well, at least I'm sure we learned some valuable less-

The story made national headlines, and Crush was immediately "fired" from the Katy Railroad.[12] In light of a lack of negative publicity, however, he was "rehired" the next day and continued to work for the company until his retirement, in a career spanning six decades.[13]

Incredible

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lemmy.world

Katy is such a shit hole, it makes sense they would have nothing better to do than kill 2 of its citizens through an unnecessary publicity stunt. It just makes too much sense.

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This happened in 1896. Wasn't much else to do besides train crashing and watching executions.

But yeah, Katy do suck lol.

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That was my reaction too. However:

Katy engineers assured Crush that his grand idea was safe, specifically that the boilers on the steam engines had been designed to resist ruptures and that, even in a very high-speed crash, they were unlikely to explode.

But the question remains: What made the engineers sure that the design was safe?

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