re: #82 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I’ve been watching a documentary called the Black Market Express on Amazon. This is about the 1944 Balvano train disaster in Italy, one of the strangest and most tragic transportation disasters of the twentieth century, and the worst such disaster in Italian history. A steam freight train, with 4 passenger cars attached, and hundreds of free riders on and in the freight cars, stalled in a relatively short tunnel when it lost traction on icy rails. 520 people died of carbon monoxide poisoning, there were only about 90 survivors. Trains did not have radio in those days and the outside world did not know about the disaster until a severely ill crewman, one of just 2 to survive, walked 2 kilometers to the Balvano station and alerted the station master. There was an interview with 96 year old Giuseppe Motta, the station telegraph operator who was one of the first 6 rescuers to reach the stalled train.
The train itself was completely undamaged.

Is that where Ayn Rand got the idea for that famous scene in Atlas Shrugged?