So that's how the trope was popularized, but has anyone ever actually been tied to a railroad track in that way? It turns out, while it's rare- yes.
The earliest real-life incident I could find was from 1874, when on August 31 the New York Times reported that a Frenchman named Gardner had ...
But that scene rarely ever occurred, and probably not in the way you think it did. ... This may be the first instance of a "damsel" tied to the tracks.
It's such a cultural cliche of the mustache twirling villain to tie the damsel to the train tracks to get run over by the impending train, but was …
In railway use with ever heavier locomotives, it was found that it was hard to ...
where a person was hogtied or otherwise bound and then secured to the traintracks?
At least six people in the United States were killed between 1874 and 1910 as a result of being tied to railroad tracks. Of course, it was never as common in real ...
Was the cliche ever actually used? (I am making the foolish assumption that you are reading this in the spirit of movie scholarship, film trivia or ...
TAMPA — The teenager accused of shooting a dog, tying it to railroad tracks and leaving it for dead last March was sentenced Wednesday to ...
She was reported alive and stable, but her right front leg will have to be amputated, police said. Police said they didn't know who tied Cabela to ...