A Dutch train burst past the end of its elevated tracks in the Netherlands on Monday.
But instead of crashing to the ground 30 feet below, the metro train was caught — held aloft by an artist’s massive sculpture of a whale’s tail. Despite some damage, no injuries or deaths were reported.
The sculpture at the end of the tracks was given a prescient name: “Saved by the Whale’s Tail,” according to France 24. It was built in 2002, installed at the De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, a city just outside Rotterdam.
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