Several years ago, when I was a youngster, I attended a train show in Vancouver B.C. with my dad. One of the displays had a human face embedded into a section of the front of a engine. Apparantly the story went that a man cut inbetween two railcars only to be hit by a speeding mail train on the next set of rails coming into Vancouver. He was to be hit so hard that his face got embedded into the front of the train. I had a tough time believing this. Has anyone heard of similar stories or what do think of the above story?
And that’s the real story of how Thomas came to life.
Had to have been a really stone-faced individual, if true!
Having seen an image of a horse hit by a train at speed, I doubt it could be true. I didn’t see any imprint in the front of that locomotive…
No. No. No way could an individual be crushed to death by the rolling stock or motive power and leave a visible imprint. We are flesh, bone and lots of water, not some sci-fi “carbonite.” The unfortunate soul would have been crushed into pulp before any ability to leave any imprint on steel or aluminum. - a. s.
This sort of thing has happened before.
Never have I seen the Man in the Moon look so smug – or so symmetrical! Is that shot something out of the Lumiere Bros.’ early motion pictures? - a. s.
Seeing trains plow through cars with just scrathes, I doubt it. All though, it could still be a great story to scare the kids to stay away. Some urban legends have there place.
Buried in the letters to the editor in one of the issues of Model Railroader from the 1950’s was a picture of a car that had been smacked in the fender by a outdoor railroad model diesel. The impact left a perfect impression of the diesel nose in the side of the front fender. If I remember correctly the car owner left the impression alone and just had the paint redone so he could prove to anyone who would listen that his car had been hit by a train and survived the accident.
Compare it to hitting bugs on the interstate while driving a car
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