IN A RARE EVENT FOR THE 21st CENTURY, two steam trains collided head-on in Saxony, Germany, Saturday leaving more than 50 passengers injured.
The two excursion trains were partaking in the old railway’s 125th anniversary celebration that had several vintage trains taking tourists for rides. The unusually high traffic load is initially being blamed for the two locos ending up on the same track and running into each other. Of the 250 passengers on the two trains, 52 were injured including ten children that are under age 10.
The Associated Press has some raw video of the wreckage:
