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490- Train Set

99% Invisible

Was It Viewed at the Time as a Catastrophe?

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Three people were killed when two of the trains boilers exploded. A photographer from wako, who incidentally got some really great pictures, a lost an eye. The railroad company fired him, basically on the spot,. But then they turned around and rehired him a day later because the media coverage wasn't actually that bad.

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