The strange thing about 1996 is that there were 5 train wrecks in a row in America in February and March. The 1996 cajon pass runaway, the Secaucus train colli, the St. Paul runaway, the 1996 Maryland collision, and the weyauwega derailment. And you have made a video about all those crashes.

@busfan9874

4 ай бұрын

Yeah. Also in 1996 was TWA flight 800

@EricKNYShinzoOCHudson

4 ай бұрын

6 disasters, 1 Major Airline Crash and 5 known Train Wrecks. And all this time a railroad with an airliner‘s name was not on the wreck charts (I think)

@jimmyhook4852

4 ай бұрын

Man... and the insane thing was: I was born in that year. O_O

@matthewpowell2429

4 ай бұрын

Sounds almost like 1996 was a bad luck year.

@thedesigner00

4 ай бұрын

2 collisions,2 runaways and a broken rail

As a Minnesotan in the Twin Cities area, I'm excited to see this forgotten accident be reexplored.

@georgemurphy2579

4 ай бұрын

How do we donate?

@PhyllisAncelet

26 күн бұрын

IDK

I don't blame on the conductor Richard Vitek of not liking trains after his terrible experience with the incident. Also, I remember I did record the St Paul wreck in runaway trains 2 bc I can hear the 911 call of my TV at the time, I'm glad I'd still had that even though it was kind bad. It wasn't my video I got inspiration by someone who does that kind of content back then. This incident was very tragedy and shouldn't have happened. At least in this incident, no one was killed. Which it's a miracle. But Runaway Trains are still an engineers' nightmare. It's extraordinary about how no one knows about this incident. Great video.

@MegaBrokenstar

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I imagine he’s probably just afraid of being near rail equipment now. Rail equipment is huge, heavy, and intimidating in its viscerally uncaring industriality in the best of times. I love trains, but I think I would find it hard to stand near the tracks again after seeing all of those tons of steel flying at me and barely surviving by luck.

@railfandepotproductions

4 ай бұрын

*tragic

@kentkearney6623

3 ай бұрын

❤No fire

Ive been waiting for you to make this one for YEARS. The lord has awnsered my calls! 🎉🎉

Whenever I watch one of these I'm always reminded of one of my grandfathers songs. "One heartbeat between life and death - One breath separating heaven from hell - One thin inch on each driving wheel, is all that's keeping me on these cold steel rails"

i'm from Minnesota, and I had no clue that there was a runaway train in St. Paul Minnesota back in 1996 I was born in 98 so that would probably explain it but, wow This got fascinates me, because I was literally born in St. Paul Minnesota and pretty much raised near St. Paul

@bodin1912

4 ай бұрын

I grow up in the Twin Cities area as well and I didn’t know about the crash either. Then again, my parents got married about a year and a half after the crash, years before I was born

@lukechristmas3951

4 ай бұрын

And I was born in 2001 and have lived in the Twin Cities all my life. Overall, I can see all Twin Cities Minnesotans who like trains reuniting over this video!

wake up babe, new Thunderbolt premiere.

Any time you stop a train, especially in St. Paul, the chances of someone messing with it are high. People climb through your train and sometimes close angle cocks, set retainers or spin handbrakes. Happens more often than you think. Retired CP engineer

being a rail-fan and seeing a train crash makes me worried for the drivers (or passengers) but also makes me excited at the same time, its so much chaos but ends so fast

The man, the Myth, THE LEGEND, has returned to form! Very excited!

Great Documentary as always. I am not sure if you are aware that cajon pass had a runway train last year when a UP Ore train broke away and derailed going around 118 mph.

@Fynnegangrey

Ай бұрын

Actually they figure the train was going around 150+ when it derailed. If I remember correctly, the last time it was clocked was a defect detector at 118 (the highest it can go) and that was several miles before it Actually derailed I believe. I talked to quite a few guys that worked/ work on the line.

So glad to see you making videos. I currently live 1 mile from the hump end of Pigseye in St Paul. I can hear the yard switching cars in the early morning. I also have a cabin on the Mississippi near Pepin WI. We had two trains derail just south of Pepin about 20 years ago. They derailed the same year in nearly the same location on the track. Thank you for making this video.

I recall this accident from a documentary on Reality TV, but I haven't been able to find a full-length documentary on the wreck till now. I can't wait!

@railfandepotproductions

4 ай бұрын

It's on KZread and I've seen it

@matthewpowell2429

4 ай бұрын

@@railfandepotproductions What Channel?

@railfandepotproductions

4 ай бұрын

@@matthewpowell2429 why trains crash

@matthewpowell2429

4 ай бұрын

@@railfandepotproductions Thank you

@jacobwatts202

4 ай бұрын

Spike tvs train wrecks has it

Blud chose quality over quantity 🗣🔥 Awesome documentary.

@railfandepotproductions

4 ай бұрын

Imagine him using blender to animate the crashes so he doesn't have to use a black screen

My brother works for the railroad and first started with Canadian pacific in Iowa but on occasion went to Minneapolis for training courses. During a training course they talked about train disasters including this one and he talked with the engineer that was on the freight train in the yard.

this series coming back? no way

@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren

4 ай бұрын

Perhaps

@railsunlimitedczechpelindo

2 ай бұрын

@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren :o

This looks sick! I'm sure the premiere will be great! Edit: it was great, awesome job Thunderbolt

@Thefatkaylaproctucion256

4 ай бұрын

Protosheep

@mrbluebelltrain55

4 ай бұрын

Btw how do you edit comments?

@wiiungrant128

2 ай бұрын

😌

Been looking forward to this one. Glad to see we’re getting back on track with the train wreck documentaries. Always found them very intriguing.

As a Minnesotan, this is very interesting. Didn't know this happened till today.

Great work as always Thunderbolt, I, and a lot of other people, really enjoy seeing this series of yours.

I've been waiting for this moment for months and it's finally here! I'm so glad you were able to do a documentary on this wreck that happened in MY AREA! Great work and keep these coming! 💯 🔥

Yay, the accidents/incidents videos are my favourite type of content from this channel. Great video!

Thank you for this one. It was cool to know what happened to the equipment and some of the people. Looking forward to your next video.

I remember seeing this on the Train wrecks documentary; Viteck talked about his experience during this wreck

Very nicely done, Thunder. Great job as always with the documentaries.

Your videos and train wreck documentarys always bring smiles to my face 😁😁😁

Came late into the stream due to connection issues, but hope you do more! Saw the 1996 Silver Spring video as the first out of this series, and I have been loving it!

Across all the pictures of 8572 that I have taken, I never would have known it had been in such a horrific crash. It was such a clean LMX survivor before RJ Corman repainted it.

One I would like to see is the New York Central 1962 runaway train I believe

Ok, LET’S GO!!!

@Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions another great video. So happy to see you make more train wreck documentaries.

As a German Railroader, I have to say, that we run trains up to 1km in length with 1 man crews. And we don't have nowhere near as many incidents as the American Railroads. These Train lengths are insanity. They are literally killing people.

Glad to see another upload! Hope you're doing well :)

I live in St Paul MN all but half a year, i didn't know about this one. Thank you!

It’s safe to say that 1996 was the worst year of Modern Railroading.

@MegaBrokenstar

4 ай бұрын

TWA 800 was in 1996 too. The whole transportation industry was absolutely in shambles.

@railfandepotproductions

4 ай бұрын

​@@MegaBrokenstarwhat about valujet flight 592 and the charkhi dadri mid air Collison

@KaijuForceNeo

Ай бұрын

@@railfandepotproductions We’re talking Trains, not Planes.

@railfandepotproductions

Ай бұрын

@@KaijuForceNeo TWA flight 800 ain't a train blud

Always a delight to see you come across my feed.

Can’t wait! Thanks for posting this

Glad to see you’re back man! Hope you’re well!

Nice seeing this wreck finally getting the notice it deserves! Great video! 👍

Glad to see you back man. Excellently done. Would love to see you tackle the 1993 longview junction collision

Great documentary! I did not even know this happened! I always enjoy your content!

Glad to see videos from you, always love the videos

Always a great video from this channel!

The GOAT! is back with more episodes.

I've been waiting for this😎👍

Nice to have you back, Thunderbolt :).

Good story to hear while traveling through the cities down to south east minnesota

Great job on this one!

It's great to see you back man.

Hey Thunderbolt, good to see another well done video on a train wreck!😁 My condolences to you upon losing your mother. I'm sorry that happened.

@jonathangreenlees4772

4 ай бұрын

I do want to make a note of a minor mispronounced name. At 15:55, you pronounced Ottumwa as "Ottoneuma". We Iowans pronounce it as "Ott-tum-wa". Keep up the good work! 😁

Welcome back dude

its always fun to watch these "documentaries" when they are posted

Fantastic presentation!!

Amazing Train Wreck Documentary

Another great video from Thunderbolt, keep up your excellent work, you never fail to deliver quality

@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@ExpressRailfan

Ай бұрын

​@@Thunderbolt_1000_SirenSo uh, Thunderbolt, I see that your documentary has gotten around 137,655 views. Can I make a documentary of that, too. Please?

I never knew about this so I learned something new thanks thunderbolt

Beautiful music man! You never fail it!

Great video well done man

Keep up the work thunder.

Another great video!

We becoming a runaway with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥶🥶🥶

First time I've ever heard of this disaster, or the recent runaway you mentioned. Scary to think what's happening on the railroads today despite all the advances we've supposedly made.

I love these videos

Exellent documentary sir,well dine

Great video!

Another awesome video, though I still wish we could get a video covering the 1947 wreck of the red arrow. With your style of editing and storytelling im sure it would make for a great watch, since there was so much going on and the interesting stories that went along with it!

They just keep getting better

A while ago in this game: Derail Valley Simulator, I was building up a long train in the food factory and town. I pushed a lot of cars back up a hill and applied hand brakes on one car but it was not enough to keep them from rolling down towards the switch I was supposed to merge onto with 3-4 locomotives. As soon as I saw the cars rolling down, I immediately started up the locomotives and tried to get ahead of the cars but it was a draw, I derailed the locomotives and few of the cars. Thankfully I loaded the auto save and put on more hand brakes on the cars to either make them roll down slower or better yet, keep them from rolling down.

a thunderbolt upload in 2024?! awesome! :D

thanks for sharing twin city native who was 2 at the time so great to learn some local history

Yay you’re back!

Just to help, it's generally pronounced Ah-tum-wa Iowa. Like others here I too live in Minnesota and have no memory of this incident. Strange what sticks in the mind and what is forgotten.

Unfortunately I won’t be able to watch this live because I’ll be working. I’ll try to see it at lunch break

​To those who want CPS' LMX B39-8s, you're gonna have to wait till JointedRail rereleases them

@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren

4 ай бұрын

You sure the same guy made those? I know they were a small team of mostly younger guys and I think only 1 got hired at JR. If so that'd be great to get an upgrade on them even though the horn on the current models was really good

@Benthetrainkid

4 ай бұрын

@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren Yeah. (Audie (Amm4425) moved to JointedRail and is gradually working on reworking them and re-releasing them to JointedRail)

@chandlerbranchrailfanprodu5928

4 ай бұрын

As freeware i'm guessing

@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren

4 ай бұрын

@@chandlerbranchrailfanprodu5928 nope paid with upgrades like better headlight corona... whatever that means

@Benthetrainkid

4 ай бұрын

Actually, it was payware during its release on CPS@@chandlerbranchrailfanprodu5928

Over Valentine's day? Instead of Happy Valentine's day, I'll call it "Tragic Valentine's day"!

As a Minnesotan, I did not know this! I wish I had. Amazing documentary.

This is gonna be a good one

I have always been curious about a runaway train that happened when I was a kid. It was really close to where I lived, and was derailed on purpose to stop it from reach heavily populated areas. Not sure of the year, late 80s early 90s. Train ranaway from Garrison Junction in Montana. It headed westbound. Was derailed just past the tunnel at Bevertail, in a field owned by a friend of my dad's. He had called to tell us, it was going to happen. I begged my dad to take me to go watch. Young and not quite understanding. We did go see the aftermath, rail cars in a huge tangled mass next to I 90.

Thanks for the new video! Can you please do a remake of the Camp Hill, Tangiwai, and Federal Express videos?

These train crash docs are awesome to watch

I fimiliar this disaster on the show (Train Wrecks), a retired former-sheriff John Bunnell did get this information but the revealed of the origin was never fully confirmed. But THANK goodness. That this video is fully explained and what really happened on that destruction to miracle to fully answers and the fate at the end. Thankfully no engineers, workers and others were in no state of their conditions. But the (PSR) as of now, I would pin the fully blamed of what they doing, they should stop grabbing cash of money to make longer trains. It feels like I should give an advice from a British-American, John Oliver. Who gives the Thomas show to given the respectively to know how American Trains ends up so delinquent these days of how many lives put to endanger if PSR existed. P.S. All thanks to PSR, railroads is now a train wreck for their companies. >[

@railfandepotproductions

4 ай бұрын

Found*

I know one thing it was't sabotage it was slack in the air hose the same thing that happened with the manifest HBLT-31 SANTA FE that came off cajohn pass

Can’t Wait!

Nice video

How is it that I have lived in the Twin Cities for years and have never heard of this incident before now? It's crazy to think that a disastrous runaway train happened in St. Paul and on St. Valentine's Day. I have to agree that it's a miracle no one was killed! Once again, you delivered an amazing video documenting another rail tragedy and you gave me something new to look at for the CPKC and BNSF that runs through the radius of my home.

Waiting For The Thunderbolt Premiere While Playing TSW 4

That’s crazy. I grew up along the Seminole-Golf railway area and I never thought I would see anything on here that ever mentioned them. They never seem to do a lot…

Most awesome vid!!!!!

As a Minnesotan Railfan, I genuinely did not know that there was a big accident in one of our yards

As someone in the twin cities area, I gotta say, great documentary.

Love these videos. Also can you do the Harmar Township derailment from May 25, 2022?

I’ve lived in Minneapolis for five years, moving here with my girlfriend who is from Minnesota, and I’ve never heard about this incident. Perhaps it’s gotten lost in the passing decades or superseded by larger tragedies like the 35W Bridge collapse. It’s absolutely amazing that no one lost their life. Especially when you look at the scale of the damage from all the images. Also, I’d never heard of the California Amtrak train that was sabotaged. I took an Amtrak train from Boston, MA to Emeryville, CA (a sleep between Chicago & Emeryville) in 1994 and it was an amazing trip. I’d like to find info on the 1996 tragedy.

I remember ppl talking about this at the railroad when I worked for Soo Line/CP. One guy was well known for not being at his desk when he was supposed to be, and when that train crashed into the yard office, the only reason he didnt get flattened was because he wasnt at his desk like he should have been.

St. Paul, Minnesota is also the birthplace of railroad legend Alfred Perlman, and where the Jackson Street Roundhouse is located.

I pass by this yard a lot and seeing that CPKC building there now, it’s so hard to believe a runaway train crashed there.

This will be epic

6:15 when you let your pet drive a train...

I caught the sister locomotive of the two dash 8's the other day, 8525 under reporting mark NIWX

you are back on train disaster stories

I can’t wait