Maybe not the most spectacular, but at the time, something I'd never heard of happening before. I came to work at Kansas City, and saw a 500 class GE locomotive at the diesel shop, all tore up on the nose and down the engineer's side. I ask somebody about it. It was going east on a hot train, somewhere east of KC. and hit a truck load of lumber. The truck spun around and sideswiped the engine, breaking off all the brake cylinders, and lifting the cut lever. The train went into emergency and stopped, but the lead locomotive continued on down the track. It went down grade several miles while the crew finally got it stopped with the hand brake. When it separated, the MR hoses parted, and with the brake cylinder piping & cylinders broke off, there wasn't any air, or enough to use the brakes, and not enough MR air for the air reverser to work.
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