Ever look at a wreck photo and wonder if the driver had just yelled "Hey Y'all, Watch this!" ?

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restored tourist attraction steam locomotive was heavily damaged by derailing and falling on it's side because thieves removed the railroad ties

The locomotive – which dedicated volunteers spent many years restoring to working order – was substantially damaged.

The railroad ties are wood planks about 8 inches tall by 12 inches wide and “tie” the rails to the trackbed. Without sleepers, the rails would spread and topple under the weight of a train – which is what happened (interesting to me for the breadth of information about the variety of railroad ties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie and for an intriguing photo and information about railroad ties being baked in creosote http://www.shorpy.com/node/7900?size=_original )

The stolen ties were made from hard Australian yarra wood, and are highly prized for making furniture – and sometimes for firewood – and in recent years, railway lines all over South Africa have been targeted by sleeper thieves. Some lines have lost so many sleepers that they have been closed since the cost of replacement has been deemed uneconomic.

Yesterday’s derailment happened on a line that sees many tourist trains during the year. The thieves don’t really care about the consequences, either for innocent passengers or for tourism as a whole. The cost of repairing the locomotive will be a heavy burden for the club which receives no funding other than what it earns from running tourist trains. The cost of repairing the damaged track will run into many thousands of rand – and Transnet is not keen to spend money looking after lines that are not part of its core network.

http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/wanderer/2010/06/21/thieves-derail-train-and-give-sa-tourism-a-kick-in-the-head/
via http://tukkers.blogspot.com/ which is NSFW (not safe for work)

It was said best by the "Grenade Inspector" who uttered "God Damn Trees!"

Before and afters rarely make you so happy, just look at the next couple photos to see how awesome this was made after that tree jumped in front of the hot rod

Above photo from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=486972 below photos I took at the LA Roadster show

Bad train wreck, great photo

I don't know the source

What a sorry sight, rear wheel taco'd, windscreen and steering broken, and that must be due to the tree that busted up the front suspension

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These photos have been running around the internet awhile, this motorbike inserted itself at high speed into this VW killing everyone

More about the story (from 2005) here http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/seemotorcycle.asp

if you have more money than sense, you can buy this wreck for 22 thou, and probably blow 200,000 thou to get it restored

The restoration company that is desperate to sell this wreck (worse in person than in the photo) wants 22 thou, but if you'll blow all your nest egg on restoring it in their shop so they can stay in business and put their kids through college, they'll knock 30 percent off and you can then call it yours (as long as they profit on the restoration) for 15 thou

bad days at the track happen, at least these were great photo ops

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Make an insurance company cry, show them this

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Awesome photos from Spritied Drive Tumbler

Burn baby burn, the devil's got your number via: http://spiriteddrive.tumblr.com/

Black and white and cool all over

Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl

Nixon in Paris 1957

Bumper cars at a British carnival

The concept car Ford Seattle

Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career

Daytona Beach racing 1953

Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950

Cincinatti 1950

Looks like James Dean's Porsche

Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi

From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

This is one of the times it's ok to cry

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=322547623826#!/group.php?gid=322547623826

Jason Graham Hot Rods in Portland Tennessee burned due to a shop fire Feb 22nd 2010, about a million dollars of hot rods and equipment are a total loss

Learned about it via: http://scootermcrad.blogspot.com/2010/03/hot-rod-trajedy-captured.html

Reminds me that last August, 30 of Reggie Jackson's cars burned in a garage fire: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/05/us/fire-destroys-30-classic-cars-collected-by-reggie-jackson.html "Firefighters estimated damage to the building at $800,000 and to the contents at $3.2 million. The cause was not immediately determined. "