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Joe Connolly (Head-On) was a showman who staged train collisions. In a career that spanned 36 years, he destroyed 146 old locomotives in 73^[1] shows. His first collision was in 1896 and the last in 1932, both at the Iowa State Fair.^[2] He got the idea from watching the staged Crush, Texas crash.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Dixon, Glenn (May 5, 2000). "Head On : Crash fan Robert Carroll Reed celebrates the transformed machine". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
^ Nelson, Derek (2003). The American State Fair. St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing. p. 62. ISBN 0760319170.
^ Coffey, Dan; Eric Jones; Berit Thorkelson (2005). "Head-On Joe's Show". Iowa curiosities : quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff (1st ed.). Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press. pp. 119–120. ISBN 0762725486.

Reisdorff, James J. (2009). The man who wrecked 146 locomotives : the story of "Head-On Joe" Connolly. David City, Neb.: South Platte Press. ISBN 978-0-942035-85-8.
Jack Mabely (w). "Train wrecks made to order" Action Comics, vol. 1, no. 193, pp. 31–2 (June 1954). DC.
"A Collision at the State Fair". The Algona Upper Des Moines. 15 July 1896. p. 1. Retrieved 16 February 2020 – via newspapers.com.

External links[edit]

Justin Franz (1 July 2019). "For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America's Favorite Pastimes". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

[1] Dixon, Glenn (May 5, 2000). "Head On : Crash fan Robert Carroll Reed celebrates the transformed machine". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 6 October 2012.

[2] Nelson, Derek (2003). The American State Fair. St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing. p. 62. ISBN 0760319170.

[3] Coffey, Dan; Eric Jones; Berit Thorkelson (2005). "Head-On Joe's Show". Iowa curiosities : quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff (1st ed.). Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press. pp. 119–120. ISBN 0762725486.

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