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April 07, 2009

How to derail a train

A military film the OSS sponsored in 1944 shows that derailing a train isn't as easy as you'd think.

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Compare how difficult it was to deliberately derail a train in 1944 with how readily the trains come off the tracks in 1974.

H/T to Ken Olson.

Posted by Nicholas at April 7, 2009 09:34 AM
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