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Crash at Crush
Posted by Falcon48 on Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:32 PM

One additional factoid about the staged Crush Collision described in the 9/10 Newswire.  Most of you have probably heard of Scott Joplin, the famous ragtime composer.  who wrote the "Maple Leaf Rag", "The Entertainer", and many other pieces.  One of his earliest published compositions was "The Great Crush Collision March" (1896), which is "dedicated to the M.K. & T. Ry".  The piece comes complete with a musical train crash.  It's not written as ragtime, but was almost certainly played as a rag when performed.

Just another piece of totally useless information.     

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:34 PM

Falcon48
Just another piece of totally useless information. 

Yeah, but it's fun...

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Posted by tcwright973 on Thursday, September 23, 2021 5:31 PM

No information is useless. Who knows, maybe tomorrow someone might ask me about this. Just imagine how smart they will think I am when I give them my reply. So thank you...

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Thursday, September 23, 2021 6:00 PM

Falcon48

One additional factoid about the staged Crush Collision described in the 9/10 Newswire.  Most of you have probably heard of Scott Joplin, the famous ragtime composer.  who wrote the "Maple Leaf Rag", "The Entertainer", and many other pieces.  One of his earliest published compositions was "The Great Crush Collision March" (1896), which is "dedicated to the M.K. & T. Ry".  The piece comes complete with a musical train crash.  It's not written as ragtime, but was almost certainly played as a rag when performed.

Just another piece of totally useless information.     

 

Far more interesting and useful than many threads. 

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, September 23, 2021 8:13 PM

Falcon48
One of his earliest published compositions was "The Great Crush Collision March" (1896), which is "dedicated to the M.K. & T. Ry".  The piece comes complete with a musical train crash.  It's not written as ragtime, but was almost certainly played as a rag when performed.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_k5Li3C-Y

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Friday, September 24, 2021 6:21 AM

The next time someone suggests I stage a head-on train collision, I will point out the potential danger.

Still in training.


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