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A Railroad Smashup

Maine Silent Film Festival 2023 • 01-Nov-1906

Two Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives meet in a head-on collision in this 1904 short.

Tags
actuality, documentary, short, train, train wreck
Crew
Edwin S. Porter director

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