I suspect that if you were to ask a random person when demolition derbies first started, most people would probably pause for a moment before asking you to drive them to the nearest library, where ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A craze swept America around the beginning of the 20th century: Inviting spectators to watch two steam locomotives running at high speeds crash into each other head-on. And it likely ...

William George Crush, assistant to the vice president of the railroad, was a promoter who convinced Katy officials that staging a “monster wreck” of two trains destined for retirement would be great ...