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A train wreck occurs when a train crashes. It most often occurs as a result of an accident, as when a wheel jumps off a track in a derailment, or miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track, or when a boiler explosion occurs. Train wrecks were occasionally staged for public entertainment; crowds watched as two vacant trains were deliberately sent speeding toward each other. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 500 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1750 × 2100 pixel, file size: 531 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Other versions Image:Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 500 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1750 × 2100 pixel, file size: 531 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Other versions Image:Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895. ...
View of the Gare Montparnasse from the Tour Montparnasse. ...
City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...
Trainwreck is an American rock band, a project of Kyle Gasss (of Tenacious D) alter-ego, Klip Calhoun. As of 2005, the band consists of: Klip Calhoun (guitar and vocals); Daryl Lee Donald (vocals and percussion); Lance Branson (keyboard and vocals); John Bartholomew Shredman (electric guitar); Boy Johnny (bass...
An SP freight train west of Chicago in 1992. ...
Rail tracks. ...
Notable historic train accidents: 1830s September 15, 1830 – William Huskisson becomes first ever passenger train death. ...
Boiler explosions are catastrophic failures of boilers. ...
A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the audience may be only one person). ...
Legal consequences
Because train wrecks usually cause widespread property damage as well as injury or death, the intentional wrecking of a train in regular service is often treated as an extremely serious crime. For example, in the U.S. state of California, the penalty for intentionally causing a non-fatal train wreck is life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.[1] For a fatal train wreck, the possible sentences are either life without the possibility of parole, or death. Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Counties/Parishes/Boroughs, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
Life imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime, nominally for the entire remaining life of the prisoner, but in fact for a period which varies between jurisdictions: many countries have a maximum possible period of time (usually seven years) a prisoner may be incarcerated, or require the...
Parole can have different meanings depending on the area and judiciary system. ...
Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...
As metaphor The term is sometimes used metaphorically to describe a disaster that you can see coming but cannot stop, such as former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's assertion that a government shutdown would be a "train wreck."[citation needed] Educators warn that attaching a high school diploma to a test such as WASL that fails over half of students would lead to a "train wreck".[citation needed] Look up metaphor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The term Speaker is usually the title given to the presiding officer of a countrys lower house of parliament or congress (ie: the House of Commons or House of Representatives). ...
Newton Leroy Gingrich (born June 17, 1943), Ph. ...
A government shutdown occurs when a legislature (including the legislative power of veto by the executive) cannot agree on financing its government programs for the next fiscal year. ...
The Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) test is a standarized test used in the state of Washington. ...
The term "train wreck" is also used metaphorically to describe something distasteful or disastrous, yet inevitable, or something distasteful yet compelling in some form ("You don't want to stare, but you just can't look away"). A person may be described in this way as being a "train wreck".
In software development, method chains of the style: getThis().getThat().getTheOther() are referred to as "train wrecks". The term is pejorative because their use breaks the Law of Demeter in addition to being stylistically cumbersome. The Law of Demeter (LoD) is a design guideline for developing software, particularly object-oriented programs. ...
See also List of rail accidents from 2000 to the present. ...
Texas Historical Commission sign commemorating the event Crush, Texas was a temporary city established as a one-day publicity stunt in 1896. ...
External links - A train wreck site, with photos
- BBC News: World's worst rail disasters
References - ^ See California Penal Code Section 219.[1]
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