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  1. Mr. Rushing says:

    Photoshoped

    • tom says:

      actually it’s not a photoshop. everybody on the train died, true story.

    • berta3008 says:

      Fail “road”? It’s a train track. FAIL

    • Gargonzilla says:

      Almost possible- The car hanging off may have been part of a string of cars pushed too far, sending one car off but leaving the others safe. A mega fail on the engineers part.

    • anon2903840 says:

      Either it was shooped or the train has stopped.

      If the train were still moving…

      one would expect to see more people looking out the window, especially in the carriages closest to the drop-off. However, it appears that no one is even in those carriages (they may have been evacuated; or it’s a shoop).

      the lower left of the tilted carriage at the end would not be touching the lower right of the carriage behind it, as there is no reason one carriage would be redirected that much more vastly than the other such that there was actual contact.

      there would be some motion blur, as any amount of motion would cause inconsistencies in the light coming in through the lens of the camera, especially with the way that light bends around the edges of objects even when still.

      Therefore, I think the most reasonable conclusion is that the train was, in fact, stopped, the offended carriages evacuated, and picture taking ensued. I think if it was a shoop of a moving train, we would see motion blur (not to mention shoopfail in the middle of the picture).

      However, I’m not entirely certain of this because if you look at the foreground of the picture, you’ll notice that the train tracks reflect off of the train’s side, but the “Wrong Way” sign does not (no part of it does). It also looks like there was some use of the rubber stamp on the treeline in the background around where the final carriage would have been under normal circumstances.

      Not to mention I would suppose railroad engineers would have thought to put up some sort of rail blockade only to provide a larger visual aid to hapless train drivers, of which we would undoubtedly see some of the shattered remnants. Finally, it’s rather difficult to go the wrong way on a train track for very long.

      There you have it: my win, shared with you. You’re welcome.

      • NewandNervous says:

        1: Train is not moving in this moment.
        2: Cannot see the passengers toward the way-laid car, simple physics would lead someone to instruct everyone to move to the other side of the cars.
        3: Physics again would teach us that a twisted car WOULD make the cars touch in such a manner.
        4: If you study the reflection hard enough, you will notice that the sign is beyond the capibility of the camera catching its reflection on the train. (If the camera was further back, it would show the sign’s reflection.).
        5: It looks to me that the de-railed car is a passenger car, not the engine, therefore it must have been going the right way all along. (fooled by the way the passengers are looking out the window)
        6: But if #5 was correct, then where in the world is the hole in the mountain that the train came out of?!?

      • Epic Fail says:

        u know u should really keep it short, otherwise u start losing people

      • Pawel says:

        To make things very simple, even if the train is moving, you can make it look stopped. You just need a high shutter-speed. A fast shutter can stop the propeller on an airplane easily, so I don’t think a train is much problem.

        Also, regardless of the rest of the picture, I think we can agree that at least that part is photoshopped.

    • Dee-Aussie says:

      I agree.
      The sign for example, the pixelation & just everything about this photo!

    • dan says:

      the only thing that MIGHT be photoshopped in this is the warning sign. you ever think that there might be pictures online that are not photoshopped? perhaps find the signs of a photoshopped image before claiming something to be photoshopped. and not all photoshopped images look photoshopped either, if they are done correctly, only people who do photoshoping for a profession should be able to tell

  2. I’m not so sure… getting the second to last carriage like that would be mighty difficult, i think it’s genuine…?

    http://itsjustaphase.wordpress.com/

  3. dannyg77 says:

    itsjustaphase… You think it’s genuine… FAIL.

  4. kdrakon says:

    seems to be a missing skateboard

  5. Hunter says:

    It looks mostly genuine, but likely to have been staged. I see some possible evidence of photoshop, but it’s under the last carriage, so I don’t know what could have been photoshopped out. Who knows…

  6. Zeon says:

    FAIL at Mr. Rushing for being the Captain Obvious

  7. Sofar says:

    Not everything that’s improbable has to be photoshopped. The picture looks high-quality enough to be a frame from a motion picture. I think the sign was an addition, though.

  8. d4 says:

    Its obviously photoshopped, the boy has a blue light casting on his back from the refraction off the water in the original pool.

  9. Phoenix says:

    I’ve seen this picture before

  10. marianna says:

    lol @ d4 for commenting on the wrong picture.

  11. Lazlo Toth says:

    ZEON COURTS OBVIOUS TROLL, FAIL AT ELEVEN

  12. Anonymous says:

    It’s an obvious photoshop because there wouldn’t be a roadsign on a railway…

    furthermore, why would there be a railway bridge leading straight into the hillside (there is no tunnel visible), and the train is also derailing before it hits the hillside.

    PHOTOSHOP FAIL

    • VexCor says:

      LOL! The road sign is to tell other trains to put it in reverse very quickly, the tunnel is visible between the last two cars, and the train is headed away from the hillside!

  13. CMJ says:

    It’s a train people. Ask yourself: where’s the engine?

  14. Anonymous says:

    @CMJ it is probaly at the front. seeing as this is a pictuure of the end of the train.

  15. Cole says:

    what better to do when you’re fucked then take pictures?

  16. Not the author says:

    lol, it is so obsiously photoshopped, the sign, i mean, iff you’re good at photoshop (what this guy HAS to be, when you look at the first 2 carriages, wich are a nice job, though) you wouldn’t fail at a sign like that, so i wonder, why the hell did he fail on the sign, and ruled on the carriages? still, a nice job, and a big fail (both photoshop and the picture itself :P )

  17. M says:

    Because the sign was made by a different person, as made clear by clicking Phoenix’s link.

    Fail for Not the Author’s reading.

  18. meeeee says:

    Fake. That train track is somewhere near Cairns Australia and it did not look like that the last time I went on it. XD

  19. Sylderon says:

    This is clearly fake. For one thing, you have a American road safety sign beneath a European-style hazard sign. Also, if you look closely at where the first and second coaches meet, you can see a dark rectangular shape on the hillside, commonly recognized as a tunnel. Going from a tunnel directly to a bridge is actually a common occurrence in mountain railroading. Therefore, I have to say that having this picture here is itself a most epic fail.

  20. Conor c says:

    its obviusly not real who would be lousy enough to post this and laugh at it if it was real! kudos to whoever shoped this mustof been hard

  21. Malfeasant says:

    So we know the road sign is fake, but the question remains, is the rest of the picture fake or real? it could be real, train is moving “backwards” (engine is behind the camera) and the last car derails just before it enters a tunnel. It’s plausible. I can’t say I’m convinced either way, but what the fork, it’s just a picture.

  22. scott says:

    what the fork

  23. jeh says:

    lol at the wrong way sign

  24. frostey says:

    Probably photoshopped. How the heck did that photographer live afterwards?

  25. tiel says:

    sign is real – both these are seen in australia, but not on railways.

    Train goes Cairns-Kuranda in Queensland, a tourist route. Only single track and one train, so very unlikely to run if line is blocked!

    Carriage is photoshopped.

  26. Fumbe says:

    O.O
    ^ Face… Then logic kicked in.

  27. aaron. h says:

    uber failtrain+dumbass train captain= UBER DUMBASS FAILTRAIN EXPLOSIN!!!!

  28. Anonymous says:

    hmmm epic photoshop fail at not making the second carriage not life up in the air like it would if it was being derailed and the weight of the first car would make the second cars back wheels rise up in the air pulling the rest of the cars down.

  29. dylan says:

    who would climb that mountain dodging trains to shoot a sign
    ive only ever heard of *hill*billys
    never *everest*billy
    ^_^6

  30. Joe says:

    Wow…I’m surprised nobody has noticed how in neither versions of this the sign isn’t reflected in the carriage, whilst everything else is, including the concrete directly behind the sign which we should not be able to see all of in the reflection if the sign were actually there. The fact that the roadsign is photoshopped surely means all of it is…

    • Greebo says:

      Read the above comments and the lack of reflection was allready discussed and dismissed to a fairly large degree.
      Comment Fail

  31. Aladdin says:

    Is it just me or does it look like there’s a guy’s face just below the front of the first carriage, wearing a white turban, as if in the original photo there was a passer-by in the foreground? It looks as if his torso has been blurred out but his face is still there…maybe it’s a genie whooooooo

  32. Get over it! says:

    Who cares if it’s PhotoShopped?! It’s here to make people laugh, not to be judged by overly-observant dick-heads! ><#

  33. Mike says:

    Does this look familiar?

  34. WonderingIfStupid says:

    How about the movie Wanted? Definitely looks like the train scene from it.

  35. Bobby says:

    The wrong way sign is definitely ’shopped… It looks so obvious, not to mention they most likely don’t have those on train tracks.

  36. zand says:

    wat happends to the rest of them

  37. Chris bateman says:

    WOW thats terrible

  38. Hannah says:

    Hahha… this was found on worth1000 (a place to enter contests over photography, but mainly photoshop contests creating manipulations) it IS photoshopped… trust me i’m a member of the site. it’s fake!

  39. Deirdre says:

    of course its fake,but its brilliant!

  40. Ethan says:

    It’s tragically hilarious.
    P.S. Shopped anyone?

  41. melisssssssssa says:

    Actualllyyy… if you do look close enough there are people with their heads out the windows near the front.

  42. AL3XP3CK says:

    about to fail

  43. lovely lily says:

    that is such a fucken stupid conductor!
    OMG
    >:-0

  44. lovely lily says:

    sorry i wrote that 3 times… it wouldnt let me send it.

  45. boomer says:

    simple, photoshop, both near and far in this picture are in focus, you can see details at the far end of the train, and right up at the camera

  46. uuhhh says:

    just a thought, real or not, couldn’t the engine simply be pushing the train in reverse?

  47. CPR master says:

    i’ve seen the wreck, its real, i nearly collapsed when i saw that picture, i can’t believe the camera was able to survive. noone survived that crash

    • Greebo says:

      Wrong it was shopped, people who make up stories about being at these palces are jsut life fails

  48. GT says:

    Well, if someone took the picture, then how did the news crew get the photo?

  49. Name (required) says:

    Ermm ever notice that the sign has no shadow at all, it looks like 2D meaning no third dimension, besides only one car went off the rail and looks like its capable of staying put and not slide further and pulling the rest of the train. So no completely fatal crash, no stupid sign, but a VERY good joke.

  50. anon says:

    OBVIOUS SHOOP IS OBVIOUS

  51. ITG96 says:

    Over-analyzing FAIL

  52. River says:

    Kuranda Scenic Railway this is at, its in Australia!

  53. roverT89 says:

    HAHAHAHAHA! A lot of you assumed the train was moving.. haha No one but the retard saying “this was a true story blah blah blah died” said the train was moving. Obviously the train is stopped because the ladies hair isnt being blown by the wind..

  54. rmd says:

    if you take a closer look under the falling car you can see that there is a doubled part. this is an effect caused by the stamp-tool in photoshop or other editing programs.

    i think this case can be closed…;)

  55. Who says:

    this is edited, if it wasent the camera would have been destroyed when the train fell(if it was going to) and if it was stoped it doesent make sense railroad tracks are checked daily before use, and you can clearly tell that, that railroad looks rotted old, and been gone for awhile

  56. Klayterss says:

    doo you just cant see the rails and you can tell that it is the back of the trail wich looks falling off it isntt anything bad

  57. ScooterPunk says:

    IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU CAN SEE A TUNNEL! LOOOOOOOOOOOK!

  58. grimsoul11 says:

    im going off the rail on a fail train?

  59. nada says:

    This is not a photoshop fail! It’s a photoshop WIN, since so many people actually believed it.

  60. Shaggy says:

    it’s all fake!! the “wrong way” sign it’s too small, in the real life you won’t only put that sign, you close the railroad!! and the warning sign looks like made by ACME lol!
    anyway, it’s a funny pic

  61. Gadrean says:

    omg if real those poor peeps :(

  62. miss uk says:

    omg ur all sooooo weird this side of the sea! its so fake wot mongs thinks its real! hahahah!!!

  63. Tangiers_Rx says:

    Look at the red finish on the train. You can see the white tracks reflected in it somewhat. You CANNOT see the “wrong way” sign reflected in it. There are a few other inconsistencies, but I think this is the easiest one to point out. Photoshopped. Case closed. Next.

  64. YAY says:

    Yeah, fortunately, you photoshop people are right. DEFINETLY Photoshopped. At first I though the conductor had the train running and stopped it JUST in time… but all the good reasons you guys gave, the sign being 2D, the sign not being reflected, the double spot under the “falling” train, the woman’s hair not flying back by the wind, in fact her hair not moving at all, and the railway only being ONE track long, and if there was something with that track, the whole thing would be closed. Whoever Photoshopped this definetly WON big time, because A LOT of people fell for it. xD

  65. Qwerty says:

    Hey ever notic the sign dosent reflect off the train. Photoshop Fail


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