Mayday -- Runaway Train -- Part 4

Hi all, this is the Mayday episode that you have been waiting a very long time for and I hope that you enjoy it!! This Mayday episode is about the San Bernardino disasters that took place on the 12th and 25th of May 1989.

The first disaster involved a freight train (SP-7551-EAST) that ran away down the Cajon Pass, then derailed at over 110 MPH and crashed into houses on Duffy Street. Almost two weeks later, a pipeline that was running alongside the railway ruptured and exploded after it was damaged during the removal of the destroyed freight train. A total of 6 people were killed, many more were injured and at least $15 million worth of damage was caused in the two disasters.

Read the Wikipedia article which has been revised at www.wikipedia.org, and the Accident Report PDF which is located at the bottom of the article.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SP 7551 East
• Mayday
• San Bernardino
• Train
• Disasters
• May 1989.

[boeing521]

@BlackLabelSlushie Yeah, I think there's NatGeo UK and NatGeo USA...So they do 2 versions :P.

[BlackLabelSlushie]

@boeing521 actually they do two versions... its funny you can find this episode, idetical word for word but with an american narrator

[boeing521]

@Hobinator17 If you look at the first part, the episode displays the show title as "Mayday"...These shows tend to have a lot of British narrators for some reason.

[TheKollav]

damn off synch.

[weedeaterbike]

@Hobinator17 lol technical huh

[Hobinator17]

@satchelh mayday is the us version. this is the british version, but the person wrote it as mayday

[acenace24]

Miracles baby!

[elgatovolador71]

in 1986 cerritos suffered the aeromexico plane crash in 1989 the southern pacific derailment come to find out that each box car was loaded to its max 200,000 lbs 2 dead locomotives one the dynamic brakes barely working he has about 25 to 30 jumbojets loaded

[LSBonnPower]

@satchelh

???

[gauravsoneji]

god bless all those soles....!!!!!!!