train wreck is a type of disaster involving one or more trains. Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track; or an accident, such as when a train wheel jumps off a track in a derailment; or when a boiler explosion occurs. Train wrecks have often been widely covered in popular media and in folklore. Legal consequences Because train wrecks usually cause widespread property damage as well as injury or death, the intentional wrecking of a train in regular service is often treated as an extremely serious crime. For example, in the U.S. state of California, the penalty for intentionally causing a non-fatal train wreck is life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. For a fatal train wreck, the possible sentences are either life without the possibility of parole, or death. cowboy...

Dictionary definition of a train wreck noun: a disaster or failure, especially one that is unstoppable or unavoidable; eg The train wreck was unavoidable because the train driver fell asleep. a disorganized, problematic, or chaotic person or thing; an incongruous situation.

In slang terms a 'train wreck' can mean 2 things * when a dj is spinning and he doesn't get the beats matched perfectly before introducing the second song. * a person whose life is in total disarray eg 1) "Wow, Britney Spears sure is a train wreck!" 2) "That girl is a total train wreck"

U.S. Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accident 1985: Colorado : Train Wreck.* Slumps in the energy and high-technology industries, both important to Colorado's economy, hurt the state's economic performance this year. Layoff after layoff jarred the 150-mile-long Front Range strip of high-technology and computer-related industry. One firm, Storage Technology Corporation of... 1988: Iowa : Train Wreck.* The weather, always of interest to Iowa farmers, was the biggest story of 1988, as a disastrous drought hit the state's crops and people. Scant rainfall, record-high temperatures, and the bleak outlook for the state's corn crop caused Governor Terry E. Branstad to declare a statewide disaster...