07/23/2026
The "Great Train Wreck" was a major art installation and fiery performance spectacle at Burning Man 2018. Day or night, this piece, created by artists Debby Brower and the Collaborative Artisan Reno-Sacramento (CARS), was a show stopper.
It featured two full-scale wooden steam-engine trains built to recreate historic 20th-century head-on train crashes.
It was quite the spectacle when the crash was created (the explosion was a few seconds too soon so it missed the mark from where I was sitting but of course it was still pretty amazing!).