Seconds From Disaster
Season 1 • Episode 6: Wreck of the Sunset Limited • Watch with subtitles
Episode 6: Wreck of the Sunset Limited
November 4, 2005 • 45 min
September 1993. The captain of a towboat unwittingly causes the collapse of a bridge over the Big Bayou Canot. When an Amtrak train comes along, it derails with 47 lives lost. Why was such a hideous mistake made? How could it have been prevented? Could it have been prevented at all? Wreck of the Sunset Limited explains why over 40 people died that Autumn day.
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