Train Disaster
Train Disaster
Clip: 355335_1_1
Year Shot: 1958
(Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1643
Original Film: 031-002-03
HD: N/A
Location: India
Timecode: 00:09:19 - 00:10:09
In India, at least 34 die, 90 more are injured when a speeding holiday express rams a standing train, during the pre-dawn hours. A grim salvage task for rescue workers who sift the mangled steel. Establishing shot - Twisted steel, smoke coming from the stack of a huge crane. MS - Mounts of sheets of metal torn away from passenger cars. CUS - The bottom of the train cars almost unrecognizable. MCUS - Rescue workers carrying off dead bodies MS - People standing trying to identify their loved ones. MCUS - Two engines that rammed each other. MCUS - Another view of the buckled and twisted mess of engines. MS - A crane removing the window section of a passenger car.