The title of the film is based on the song The Great Crush Collision composed by ragtime musician Scott Joptin who recurs himself to a real historic event from 1896 which he attended: "On Sept. 15, 1896, 50,000 people had gathered anxiously on a wide stretch of Texas prairie near Warn.

Moments later, they watched two 32-ton locomotives, each pulling seven boxcars, collide head on at a combined speed of 120 miles per hour." The public had gathered in Crush, a small town in Texas, which w ...

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