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Crash at Crush (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That was my reaction too. However:

Katy engineers assured Crush that his grand idea was safe, specifically that the boilers on the steam engines had been designed to resist ruptures and that, even in a very high-speed crash, they were unlikely to explode.

But the question remains: What made the engineers sure that the design was safe?