 The Lévy and Sons photograph (at the top of the article) has become one of the most famous in transportation history.The photograph, which is now in the public domain, is used as the cover page in the book "An Introduction to Error Analysis" by John Taylor.The photograph is featured on the album covers for "Lean Into It" by American rock band Mr. Big, as well as "Scrabbling at the Lock" by Dutch rock band The Ex with Tom Cora, both first released in 1991, and, in 2019, for "Warranty Void If Removed" by French record producer Leon Inc.

A near-identical train crash in the same location appears as a dream in the novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" and its film adaptation, "Hugo", and is depicted in the comic book series "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec", namely the fourth album "Momies en folie".