Federal Express Runaway train incident 67 years later

2 days late and I lost several hours of sleep but holy hell it's worth it now that it's done! Enjoy this pretty interesting story on a runaway GG1 just days before Eisenhower's inaguration
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[@CairnTerrier69]

And moments after the dust settled, the Pullman porter emerged from one of the cars, hoisted up a flask of whiskey and declared…”HELLO D.C. HELLO! GOTTA DRINK TO THAT!!! YAH!!!”

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

LMAO I wouldn't be surprised. Also glad someone got the references to that movie like using the crash effects from it.

[@northeastcorridorguy_yt9562]

@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren Silver streak references be like:

[@SalvadorUnited]

Silver streak instead doesn't use electric train, it instead uses diesel power

[@buckykattguitar]

And I read this comment in my head in Scatman Crothers' voice....thank you. 😊

[@thomastheE2]

Is this a Silver Streak reference, cause I’ve never seen that, so few spoilers

[@Tottleminerftw]

What do we do about the locomotive in the basement. Me "Leave it in the basement" They leave it in the basement. Me " I WAS KIDDING

[@genoobtlp4424]

Guess how I learned not to joke about things that are possible and unwanted

[@lucaskoring4500]

Ayyy!

[@TPB-OPA]

Yep. Lol

[@boxycat2922]

Daniel Heywood ahhahahaha

[@Sci_X1]

It’s a Jedi

[@Toyota--Camry]

The craziest thing to me is how they straight up built a floor *over a locomotive. In the basement in a train station.* Wild

[@Toyota--Camry]

Also great choice with using Dead Voxel as music!

[@scidididi9564]

1996 Toyota Camry LE 4-Speed Automatic 2.2L *what kind of mindfuckerie is this?!*

[@bluefoxy6478]

In 2 days as well.

[@spacecadet35]

It took them two days to build a temporary floor. Nowadays it would take more than two years to get planning approval to do that.

[@WCWThunderRosa]

Real life Smudger

[@ussnautilusss-1687]

I was NOT prepared for the "Run for your life!"

[@bluefoxy6478]

It sounds so cliched because its been used in movies for so long.

[@ussnautilusss-1687]

@@bluefoxy6478 it has but it caught me by surprise still lol

[@andyjay729]

My dad has an old book (published 1968) called "Train Wrecks" which talks about this incident. According to it, the yard master said "There's a runaway coming at you on Track 16; get the hell out of there!"

[@leandrolovato4885]

@USS Nautilus SS-168 Neither did anyone in the station that day...

[@ussnautilusss-1687]

@@leandrolovato4885 Shit you right

[@nah_144]

For a wreck like that, It's amazing how there were no casualties!

[@nah_144]

@@ravenarsall2225 Are you really going to say such a horrible thing?

[@genoobtlp4424]

Good old gg1 actually had a crumple zone that wouldn’t burst like a balloon if pierced. Gotta love old electrics: mostly harmless chunks of steel when unpowered.

[@nah_144]

@@ravenarsall2225 Why tho....?

[@nah_144]

@@ravenarsall2225 I ain't taking you serious. It's best that we stop talking about this.

[@mikehoncho658]

They made things stronger and better quality back then, these days there wouldn’t be anything left of the engine if it was a Amtrak

[@SimonTekConley]

So a cigarette saved the life of a conductor in a caboose once in Tulip, IN. The train stopped, we went to get off the train and flicked his cigarette, and watched it take forever to hit the ground and realized not to take that last step off. His caboose was on top of the viaduct

[@TexasRailfan2008]

SimonTek intresting

[@canadianwizardman]

Yikes, I suppose it shows that lung cancer can be good for you after all

[@pete5668]

the passengers should have shipped themselves UPS, as the Federal Express clearly let them down.

[@thunderturbine8860]

Lol

[@ginogalante]

Nice one

[@marcas8269]

Or DHL

[@dchawk81]

FedEx Used to flip trains. Now they flip trucks.

[@ginogalante]

Or USPS

[@Tyhammonds06]

Minecraft nether music: I noticed it. I love it.

[@cherylstallworth4627]

Dead Voxel

[@mohamadismail1569]

Ty Hammonds Jr Thank you for noticing

[@roverfloats]

I was like: i recognise this. looked at the comments and saw this first lol

[@theconnecticutrailfan17]

When a train tries to mine diamonds

[@MichaelN12]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

[@alanhelton]

I'm so glad to see a train that outlast the scrap yard so many others see.

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

Although 4876 needs serious attention. That mangled rear pantograph is painful to see. Their antique locomotive collection of engines older than 1900 seem to get more care

[@blackpanther1013]

@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren out of curiosity did the train malfunction and accelerate instead of stopping

[@dukctape]

@@blackpanther1013 He explained in the vid that the reason for the train not slowing down was because the air brake hose was shut off past the 3rd car so the majority of the train's brakes weren't functioning

[@blackpanther1013]

@@dukctape ok

[@tristanbentz224]

@Deon Denis no one shut it off it hit the car frame and from the shaking closed it.

[@cambridgeh.lutece6658]

Coffee saves lives now. Drink more coffee, it will save you from a train derailment.

[@RailsAndContrails]

The Traction Comet I guess so Lol

[@johnhiggins6626]

How does it?

[@cambridgeh.lutece6658]

@skeleton boy I dont get paid enough for this shit. *closes door*

[@fortnitesweat7412]

Wow

[@BarometricQuad]

Drink more coffee , so u can lift weight of train

[@1575murray]

The 4876 was among one of the last GG1 locomotives in service. After it was repaired it served for another 30 years until finally being retired in 1983. It is in the collection of the B&O Museum in Baltimore today although in poor condition.

[@bluerazor7049]

It's been 41 years since it last ran and it needs attention, even a cosmetic restoration would do it justice. It's a shame that a few of the GG1's are neglected and rotting.

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

4876 may be in the B&O museum, and a number of others are as well, but any other GG1s in need of restoration will have to be limited to coal transport from Kentucky to Ohio by hauling bituminous from Pikeville to places like Toledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland, for fueling the steel mills.

[@dchawk81]

"Amazing how coffee can be such a life saver." Kid, you and the people on the roads around me have no idea... 😬😁

[@SteamTrainTy]

Are you a train driver?

[@birdtime9736]

XD

[@pauldietrich6790]

I drink coffee........so others may live.....

[@patricklee1633]

I'll keep that in mind.

[@jameslines6288]

. . .

[@Dill_Pickle1997]

This is legendary, all that destruction to the station and train and yet no one died

[@jessstone7211]

No question: this was a miracle. Thank You, Father God!

[@SteamTrainTy]

PICKLE DILL!!!!

[@SteamTrainTy]

Jess Stone ah, I see you are Christian like me. And yes, thank our Father.

[@AmandaLeigh1004]

Me: What an unholy mess! I wonder how many people died... Thunderbolt: Amazingly, nobody died. Me: WELL OKAY THEN

[@MrKeserian]

I remember reading that it was the risk the conductor and station master took by not immediately sheltering, and instead warning passengers and bystanders that likely saved quite a few lives.

[@bluefoxy6478]

Its like when theres an accident in T&F. "Luckily no one was hurt."

[@MittensWichen]

A MIRACLE YAY NO ONE WAS HARM

[@GreenbeanProductions]

No one died

[@lucaskoring4500]

*russian anthem music* I smell propoganda 😠

[@Kmaster2007]

5:25 that picture is hanging in my room, it was crazy how that happened

[@lindsaycasey1466]

At

[@kencarson6016]

Kmaster2007 how did you get it

[@Kmaster2007]

GamingwithSpiffy Andfriends Internet

[@johnwesleywilliam7575]

Ur lucky

[@alanhelton]

I have to say this has to be one of my favorite episodes if you will love this series. The fact that this happened in such a congested train station and at such a time and not a single fatality happens that's utterly amazing.

[@MrSmokeman63]

My mother and I were on that train. I was 5 yrs .old, we were in the last passenger car. Thad big GG1 lookd like a big dinasauer

[@kencarson6016]

Huber Hanes how old are you

[@Bregott07]

Due to your terrible spelling i do not believe you.

[@austinviall6435]

Ken Carson If this is true he is 72 or 73 years old. I don’t think it is true I just did the math

[@parmesan4291]

So your 72? nice try

[@roseannedenham2591]

Holy FOOK How is you a life

[@clockwork3494]

The fact the locomotive still survives to this day despite such an incident makes me think of the "were you killed? Sadly, yes... but I lived!" meme format

[@joeynova3550]

This is a little misleading, the locomotive in the crash was scrapped and a new GG1 with some of the components from the original was built.

[@aphotographerfromcaliforni2661]

7:52 I knew I recognized that theme! It’s from the early days of T&F

[@freddyfazbearsgamingymas6722]

Yeah! It's the theme from the viaduct

[@theblocksmith645]

Before is the nether theme in minecraft

[@charleslittleba]

Theblocksmith no one likes the nether -_-

[@jamesleopard8518]

Thomas and Friends viaduct theme! I Know that one!!!!

[@mandyplodek639]

Never knew that GG1 at the B&O museum was involved in this wreck.

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Surprising, isn’t it?

[@brayand8022]

Before the 2010 Runaway movie “Unstoppable”

[@andyjay729]

That movie was based on the CSX 8888 "Crazy Eights" incident, in which a freight train was accidentally started up with no one in the cab, and so it ran unmanned for about 70 miles. Again, no one was killed or even injured, and in this case the train didn't even crash (though it was hauling hazardous chemicals). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident

[@STARDRIVE]

And the 1985 movie Runaway Train.

[@charleslittleba]

I was born in 2010 and I only found out about unstoppable 7 years later

[@kenh3757]

@plisskenation - thrash albums you are the person I came here to find, I would guess by your name we probably have the same taste in movies

[@angelinamaniaul4299]

@@andyjay729 w

[@Dorpmuller]

Wow... best video you've ever done! Love the "G's" and remember seeing them in service on the Corridor. Miss those days!

[@ethanstrode9560]

I Love That Line When The Stationmaster Says "Run For Your Lives"

[@bluecomet9072]

I was watching this and when you said “ the clock stopped at 8:38 AM” I looked at my clock and it said it was 8:38 AM Perfect timing

[@union_4014]

omg same LOL

[@hi24x]

I was so close.... 8:39:01 😭😭😭

[@hi24x]

6⁹

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

"THOMAS J. Murphy" "No one died" Luckily no one was hurt

[@FriskDreemurrOfBiggCityPort]

You said it.

[@southerncaliforniastuff5287]

Hello again

[@rwnye108]

I was five years old at the time, living in the DC area, and I vividly remember seeing the story in the newspapers and talking about with my Mom. Over the years, though, it seemed that most people had forgotten it, and most people younger than me had never heard of it.

[@frostlord1246]

The B&O railroad museum is a place I used to visit a lot as a kid. I’m glad that they could help you out with this video

[@jacobdubielak]

Do you still go to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad museum

[@TheClockwise770]

What an amazing story , happened just 2 years before I was born. Hope the GG1 get it's justified restoration. It may have saved many peoples lives

[@757-g8l]

Woah

[@o4_]

The live broadcast was 67 minutes after the crash. This video is 67 years after the crash. There are two 67s. 67+2=69. *Nice.* Edit: KEEP THE LIKES AT 69

[@kadebruce295]

*Tsk* Noice

[@sonnypruitt6639]

67x2=134 134>69

[@JohnNack]

Sonny Pruitt ok

[@Toyota--Camry]

andyyy wu *Nice.*

[@_Maelgon_]

*Nice.*

[@nathancorcoran5347]

I've visited the B&O Railroad Museum in April 2019.

[@sonnypruitt6639]

Did you see 4876 there?!

[@CrossOfBayonne]

I went there to see the B&O 5300 in the Car Shop.

[@tibbers3755]

Its not on the ground of the shops, but at the restoration shop. You can see it if you get on the mile one express, the museums excursion.

[@nathancorcoran5347]

B&O5300 I saw it too. But I haven't did some history of that engine or talk about. Because it was nearly the end of the day for the museum, so they are closing the Car Shop at the Museum. But I did video the equipment in the shop by zooming in and out. Along with B&O 5300. But I did do some videos of C&O 490 and C&O Allegheny 1604 by talking about or talking about the history.

[@allenra530]

You have done a fine job with this historical incident. Thank you for making the video.

[@jackcraig4268]

My late father told me this story and he had seen it on the news..... They interviewed a porter in the terminal who witnessed it, and the man said: "When I first looked over, I thought, 'hey that engine shouldn't be there in the waiting room! My dad laughed every time he recounted that story. Very informative video, thanks for posting.

[@FQP-7024]

Brilliant documentary as always Thunderbolt 😁👍

[@mattberg916]

Nice work on covering this historic and "covered up" event. Amazing no deaths. Covering the locomotive with a false floor was my first thought....but I used to be a carpenter.

[@Evelyn_Bunte]

I have watched all of your train wreck videos and I have to say the quality has gotten better and better it’s amazing if I had the money I would be a patron for sure

[@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

That is a testament to the durability of the GG-1. It also says something for the quality of switch work in K Tower's interlocking at the time that nothing went on the ground.

[@maxm2317]

Great video as always, mate! I still have the story about this wreck in a special issue of Trains Magazine titled “Train Wrecks.”

[@TheMNrailfan227]

I love how this is ironically similar to the 1895 Paris train accident.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

Old railroader here from a three generation railroad family. Thanks for this video. I just subscribed.

[@jacksutton1472]

I was 8 years old living in DC when this happened. This is the first news story I was exposed to, and I was hooked. I’ve been a news junkie ever since. I didn’t realize this was one of the first broadcast news events. I was also an electric train enthusiast and fell in love with the Art Deco GG1. Eventually I bought a Lionel GG1 and it’s been one of my prize possessions and I proudly display it in my home. This story faded so fast It was frustrating to tell the story and realized nobody heard of it or remembered. It’s a joy to relive this story and yes even as a child I was surprised nobody was killed!

[@VauxhaIIOpel]

The "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES" was amazing.

[@tjprptchable]

I like how on 1:15 its happy music but you end up seeing a GG1 in the ground with some passinger cars on top of it. And the silver streak is a great movie

[@armedfurry]

Yeah “silver streak” is a amazing movie

[@Steven_Williams]

I've often heard of this accident. Thanks for the backstory.

[@scooteryooper3133]

This is what the GPS wants before it says "You have arrived at you're destination"

[@RandomBubble]

This guy is obsessed with trains, I’m obsessed with old stories and how they have aged… great content for me

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

Been that way since I was a kid and trust me old stories fascinate me too.

[@Gojira160]

​@@Thunderbolt_1000_SirenWhen is the 1988 Gare de Lyon Train Collision coming out?

[@michaelbenitez539]

It's a miracle no one was killed

[@roseannedenham2591]

L U C K I L I Y N O O N E W A S H U R T Said Alec Baldwin

[@florjanbrudar692]

@@roseannedenham2591 Lies! There WERE injuries!

[@dislikemyvids9222]

@@roseannedenham2591 there's people injured

[@patricklee1633]

@@roseannedenham2591 But the station was another story.

[@StocktonSubber]

4876? *good thing it wasn’t 4877* Anyways glad you’re doing Glendale. I was afraid it would be gone for the way I thought COPPA was gonna do. This was the same for the rest of my videos. End result? All of my goddamn videos deleted by me. I’ll see if I can try to remaster some of my videos. More on the Remastered EOCP 1

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

What happened with 4877?

[@sabrinazappile8438]

@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 GG1 No. 4877 resides at the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey in Boonton, New Jersey. There is also a four part documentary about 4877 called "GG1 An American Classic."

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

Hey, bad news Thunderbolt didn't do Glendale, but good news a guy named Camera Man Railfan did it!

[@VDPEFi]

Just found your channel, fascinating stuff and very well produced! Subscribed, thanks!

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Trombone_crochet9021]

I really like these documentaries

[@armedfurry]

Oh yeah

[@victoriacyunczyk]

Love that you used the audio from Silver Streak.

[@davidkwechansky4795]

Nice video, thanks, but one detail is incorrect. The 4876 was not cut into 3 and rewelded. That's an urban legend. In fact the engine was totalled in the crash, its undercarriage ripped away. After Ike's inaugural it was scrapped, cut it into little pieces hauled away in gondola cars. Only some components were salvaged and reused at Altoona where they built a new GG1 with the same number. Insurer Lloyd's insisted on a rebuild, not scrapping, so although the new engine should have been numbered 4940, it kept 4876 to comply with the "rebuild" charade. Today's 4876 is not the same one that hit Union Station but is actually the youngest GG1 by a decade, though you'd never know it from its sadly deteriorated present state.

[@jacktaggart2489]

Thanks for the clarification. It is a good video. I grew up in the 1950s near North Philadelphia Station through which all of the great passenger trains of the, PRR,, Sou, ACL, Seaboard, C&O would stop, invariably powered, silently and majestically by a GG1. They invariably had a 'fireman', in those days, 'union rules'. Steam locomotives still serviced the 'Sea Breeze' to Atlantic City. GG1s were switched out for diesels on through trains in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. The GG1s were extremely reliable and seemingly invincible.

[@JTTheRailfan]

I was going to say this reminded me of silver streak but that was mentioned. By the way you make great documentaries

[@jaedenlyons]

It’s been confirmed, coffee is an official lifesaver!!!

[@sweettooth7124]

Train history is awesome. It's nice to listen to instead of music sometimes. It lightens my mood.

[@Sniperboy5551]

Yes, death and destruction is very relaxing 😂

[@d-fender4489]

Good job making this runaway train video Thunder keep up the good work👍

[@scottbridge9391]

This crash also inspired the scene in the 1956 sci-fi classic movie Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers where one of the saucers crashes into Union Station in DC. When this movie came out, the Federal Express runaway train crash was still very much fresh in peoples' minds.

[@_Maelgon_]

Aahhhh it’s nice to be back :)

[@robertlucido3686]

You should do a video on the train wreck that happened in Bellows Falls, Vermont in the 1920s

[@liamneuser4140]

YESSSSS

[@jamesfracasse8178]

Another train wreck I never heard of.

[@jerryemt2001]

I wonder if the engineer had lowered the GG1s pantograph from the overhead wires if that would have stalled the engine and slowed the train ?

[@1575murray]

There was a downhill grade leading to the station and the engineer had already cut off the motors and applied the emergency brake so it wouldn't have made any difference.

[@jerryemt2001]

True.

[@genoobtlp4424]

I don’t think so, as eletric motors need a circuit to be effective generators, the higher loas, the better in this case, but I don’t think the GG1s were equipped for such maneuvers

[@genoobtlp4424]

I‘d have considered it way more humorous if they had displayed the GG1 in the basement by leaving windows in the floor or just leaving the hole with a guard rail or some shot like that. That’d have been epic.

[@RMSAquitaniafan55]

dude, a locomotive in the basement, that man cave must have been sick

[@muhammadfadhiil5992]

Me : *sees title* Also me : Since when did FedEx had a Railroad? Edit : i just realized that i remember there was a train called Federal Express 😂

[@michaelmcmurtrey8543]

Muhammad Fadhil2 It doesn’t. “The Federal” was the name of the train given it by its operators because it terminated at Washington, DC. And it was an “express” train (no or few local stops).

[@Greatdome99]

No, the train's name was "The Federal." Period.

[@michaelmcmurtrey8543]

Greatdome99 Thanks for the clarification.

[@roverfloats]

Spelling mistake.

[@georgethomson2797]

Michael McMurtrey bet your fun at parties

[@dreamsofparis5535]

Hi Thunderbolt, I love your videos on railway disasters (my words). I suggest you get lots of sleep, sometimes a lot of disasters can happen with lack of sleep. Hmmmmmm...now that I mentioned it, I like to see a train disaster based on sleep deprivation, but you need to sleep! Your health loves it when you rest! All the best for you!

[@Jaidyn228]

I think that was the case with the Hinton train crash

[@rfranzosa]

Great work. A couple of comments (with so many reviews, I may be repeating someone else. I apologized if this is the case. 1) The issue with the 8600 coach was not a specific design flaw for that car, but the fact that the PRR car behind it had a lower buffer, which banged against the angle cock. It was common for NH and PRR to share equipment between Boston and DC. There was some sort of remediation done to the 8600's to prevent the problem from re-occurring. 2) The New Haven FL9, EP5, Hancock air whistles and the red/white/black paint scheme were not in existence in 1953. It was probably Alco PAs, EP4 and all would have been painted in the classic green and gold paint scheme. Good stuff none the less, and a great telling of the story

[@sirfoxington2258]

Omg that locomotive is one of my favourites

[@kylegillespie4738]

Do Granville next! 43 years ago today.

[@EHH246]

I can see this being a Thomas the Tank Engine story. Engine: Well, at least it can’t get any worse. (Goes through floor and ends up in basement) Engine: Oh, come on!

[@atsfevan0242]

Today marks the 68th anniversary of this disaster and it's quite a shame it's often forgotten but at least the crash scene was inspired for the crash scene from the film "silver streak" which I have yet to see. It's also a surprise the anniversary of this disaster is a day after my birthday. But the 1 thing I'm hoping in the future is that 4876 the GG1 that fell into the basement of the station 68 years ago is to get some well deserved cosmetic work in the future since the engine deserves it

[@TrickyPchester0948]

Wow nobody died *T H A T S INCREDIBLE*

[@brianball6670]

As I watched the simulated crash, I was thinking "This sounds just like Silver Streak". (One of my favourite movies. Yes I saw it when it came out, I'm that old) End credits, can confirm.

[@calvinwalters1556]

Been to the B&O museum in Baltimore many times, I highly recommend going. Also there's another B&O museum in Ellicott City, MD, it's very small compared to the one in Baltimore. However it still is worth checking out, it has the oldest surviving train station in the US, being that it was the first terminus for the B&O in 1831

[@blakemcnamara9105]

This was truly one of the luckiest train wrecks in history. I really credit the durability of the GG1 and accompanying coaches for this one as had it occurred with todays trains, the whole thing would have been crushed and shards of thin steal would have killed and injured many.

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

The GG1 was VERY well received by crews. Not only were they solid builds, they were a jack of all trades. Fast intercity freight? no problem. Fast timed passenger trains? no problem. An old Amtrak guy told me the GG1s were the best locomotives they ever had due to their reliability. They even outlived their original replacements the GE E60s who couldn't hit 100mph without derailing. The thing that ended them was their frames started rotting due to age and the EMD AEM-7 which was just as good as the GG1 but could hit higher speeds was a worthy apprentice and the perfect engine the GG1 could pass the torch to.

[@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial]

i remember watching silver streak clips when i was a child in the 2000s . for some reason the scenes looked like from union station Toronto so i didn't get why a train would crash into union station as their is no dead end in the station. i don't think many Canadians would get why the train crashed

[@rdfox76]

The scenes *were* shot at Toronto Union Station.

[@trajan231]

Filmed in Canada. Set in America

[@corgis6801]

If you look closely during the scene when the train enters the station shed you can even see a CN turbo train parked on one of the other platforms.

[@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial]

@@corgis6801 that's just nostalgic rip turbo train

[@modelrailpreservation]

There was one brief shot, filmed from a hi-rail truck, of the train entering the terminal, which was filmed at Northwestern Station, now called Ogilvie Transportation Center, which even showed the dwarf disc semaphores that were in use through 2005 at least. But yeah, the rest of that scene was filmed in Canada.

[@3bydacreekside]

I love the "Viewers like you" Intro :D

[@bobgallo2178]

I tried to visit the B&O Museum last yr Before leaving the hotel, I checked the hrs. which they were open, I thought great, no problem. Upon arrival, I found the doors locked, but saw people inside. After knocking on the door, 2 people came and opened it to inform me that they are closed to prepare for the Santa train. After going ballistic, they tried to calm me down by offering a pass good for the rest of the year. Told them that I would not make the drive from Pittsburgh just to use it. This was the only reason that we stopped in Baltimore that year. They sure have Baltimore a black eye, I told them that the website should have said something about the closure.

[@billsefton9422]

Thank you so much; very well done!

[@MJC19]

This is one of the most hilarious train wrecks in American history

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

I didn't know this inspired the movie Silver Streak -then again I've never seen that movie either so-

[@cnhollysub5632]

I knew a real crash inspired 'Silver Streak' -I just didnt know what it was-

[@jamesfracasse8178]

Sliver streak? Never heard of that movie ethier.

[@___axg96___63]

How do you do that crossed out text stuff in the comments?

[@jamesgroccia644]

___Axg96 ___ you put hyphens on both ends -of the text you want to cross out- as I’ve done here.

[@armedfurry]

I love the movie “silver streak”

[@henrylawrence-curran1527]

good one thunder this was purely a worth the wait, and i enjoyed it very much

[@RailfanDaniel1997]

Not to mention, when the ICC examined the train at the crash site, the brake shoes on the locomotive and the first 3 coaches were almost completely scorched and the locomotive's wheels had flat spots over 5 inches long! (Yikes!) However, the wheels and the brake shoes on the rest of the 13 coaches had little to no wear. Probably for at least a couple of hours or maybe a few hours after the initial crash, the wheels on the locomotive and the first 3 coaches were scorching hot. In fact, about an hour and a half after the initial crash, a railroad employee burned his hand when he touched one of the locomotive's wheels.

[@joshiMOTOjordan1]

Possible idea for a train wreck doc from outside the USA, the Santiago de Compostela derailment that happened in Spain 24th July 2013. Quite fascinating when you read into it. At least that's what I found!

[@FutureRailProductions]

For this year we need to have a video on the Ashtabula train disaster. Would love to hear Sierra's thoughts on that one.

[@japhreal]

So nobody is gonna talk how coffee saved some workers from a train crash

[@SgtChip]

So, no one died, but we ended up with a GG1 in a basement? I see this as a win win.

[@YaBoiKnox]

Consider making a documentary of the illinois central crash of 1972

[@georgemurphy2579]

The Pennsylvania had another with a K-4 Pacific on the Coast Line in NJ, in 1951. Lots of causalities in Woodbridge at the New Turnpike construction site.

[@pauljevert1450]

@@georgemurphy2579 Pennsy Engineer disregarded "temporary 10 MPH track speed slow order on track through ROW construction zone ! Alcohol may have been a contributing factor !

[@jimwalsh233]

I recall that one, was living in Chicago then. That's the year Dan Walker ran for governor and won, but fall out of favor with the Daley Machine.

[@gerod187]

Nicely done with the silver streak sound effect

[@htos1av]

JUST finished watching the playlist tonight! Guess what pops up? Awesome! Newest sub!

[@forgonezinke]

i like Thunderbolts stuff i like the derailment docs keep it up thunder

[@chugnchoo]

Heard the Thomas & Friends music at 7:30 and absolutely loved it, works perfectly.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

At around 5:04, you’ll have to listen closely to hear “Dead Voxel” from the game _Minecraft._

[@wolfiebigs94]

4:35 This Crash Looked Like The Train Crash Scene Of Super 8.

[@donnymurray7439]

Amazing video I learned so much😄 what is your next rail crash video going to be👍 plus I liked the animation of the train and the crash that's was amazing as well cheers😄

[@Tristan_whitely]

I saw one of these Pennsylvania electric trains in a museum and there HUGE

[@JustYourPariah]

That poor poor GG-1

[@mrbreadcrumb]

I heard that Minecraft music.

[@Mossssssssssssssssssssssssssss]

The real hero here that saved lives was *COFFEE*

[@CMDRSweeper]

Such a sad ending picture of 4876 being eaten away by the elements. I guess since the GG1 holds a very special place in my heart and a position that have been cemented by playing Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe... Until you get to the late 80s and 90s, the only replacement for a GG1 is... Another GG1. No other locomotive could haul as much weight and at that speed as a GG1 could, if you wanted to do it with diesels you needed 4+ of them, and then they just wasn't as cost effective as the GG1.

[@markjohnsonandorangecounty7093]

6:16 ...fireman?.... but that's an electric loco...

[@22Tesla]

I think he said it in another video that this was around the time of transition from steam to diesel/electric. Firemen would ride in the cabs of diesels so they could learn to become engineers themselves.

[@bluefoxy6478]

@@22Tesla that kinda makes sense actually

[@markjohnsonandorangecounty7093]

Jaxon Ancona xD true true

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

In the UK firemen on steam locos became second men on diesel and electric locos.

[@zackriggs293]

1:06 Not a good choice of music, there.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

Glad the locomotive is in a museum.

[@TheJpec361]

It's been sitting outside rotting away for more than 35 years. I don't even think it belongs to them nor are there any plans to restore it. It's kept in a yard far out of sight of the museum visitors.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

@@TheJpec361 It belongs to them, checked the museums website. It's in good condition for being outside that long too, so let's be happy it was not scrapped.

[@JPofCT]

This video makes me want to make one for the two Federal Express crashes that happened in my home-city of Bridgeport, CT (1911 and 1955). Interestingly, there was a crash in 2016 at almost the exact same spot as the 1911 wreck. There's also a crash that happened in nearby Trumbull that I think I've found the site of (now a dead-end street), plus there's infamous Great East Thompson Train Wreck of 1891. And I'm still looking into other wrecks that happened around here. When the taxes prevent you from leaving Connecticut, you gotta look inside for interesting things. Thankfully there's plenty here.