Chicago Tribune compliments Toronto's transit system -- thoughts?

[TheTigerMaster]

No, you're wrong. I remember that crash.

My dad was working 911 dispatch the day it happened. He says those calls were the most surreal moment of his career.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

No, you're wrong. I remember that crash.

My dad was working 911 dispatch the day it happened. He says those calls were the most surreal moment of his career.

A Google search of silver streak train crash brings up the same picture.https://www.google.ca/search?q=silv...roid-motorola&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

In the page I linked to earlier it did say many people thought it was real so I don't doubt that there were 911 calls.

 

[kotsy]

He's right. That crash was 100% real.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

This 'Silver Streak' movie may have recreated the crash, but a train most certainly crashed through Union Station's great hall.

 

[jamincan]

Surely there would be some sort of news stories or something about the train crash? Searches bring up nothing except this Silver Streak movie.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Surely there would be some sort of news stories or something about the train crash? Searches bring up nothing except this Silver Streak movie.

Indeed - an accident like this would have been talked about by the historians and left traces around - plus how can it physically end up there? Forgetting even the position of the locomotive - getting into the great hall would mean having to barrel through the shed across tracks at a fairly high speed, which is highly unlikely.

AoD

 

[LNahid2000]

The Silver Streak train ran from Los Angeles to Chicago, so I'm not sure how it would have ended up 800km away at Union Station anyway.

 

[crs1026]

Does this make it more Toronto-credible?

- Paul

PS - http://torontoist.com/2009/08/reel_toronto_triple_flashback_special/

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Does this make it more Toronto-credible?

"we could have settled for the usual but instead we chose to do the extraordinary" - UPX video.

AoD

 

[k10ery]

You do know that was staged for a movie and isn't even possible with the alignment of the tracks in Union station?

Oh, it's real. I found it on the Internetz!

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Surely there would be some sort of news stories or something about the train crash? Searches bring up nothing except this Silver Streak movie.

It's a government conspiracy

 

[Translude15]

The crash is real. There's photographic evidence to prove it.

 

[Jonny5]

I remember that crash vividly. Was very mysterious circumstances.
It was right after the Victorine tower explosion. They ultimately had to demolish the tower and it was replaced with Scotiaplaza.

 

[44 North]

Of course this happens in Toronto too

That was a dark day in this city's history. I don't blame people for not knowing or not wanting to remember. Like that time sharks got loose when Union flooded.
#lestweforget

 

[W. K. Lis]

In the same section of history as Drake slipping past security to sit at the edge of the CN Tower pod.