The General (complete & clearer) (1926)

Terrifying on Instagram: "In the fall of 1926, during the production of Buster Keaton’s silent film masterpiece The General, one of the most expensive and dangerous practical stunts in cinema history was executed. The scene required a real locomotive to crash through a burning trestle bridge and plunge into the water below. Keaton’s crew located a suitable site on the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway near Cottage Grove, Oregon. They constructed a timber trestle bridge over the Row River speci