There are only two episodes involving train accidents and this looks like a third. It appears the engineer parked a train on a slope overnight and the parking brake disengaged resulting in the crude oil container cars to run off the tracks and explode leveling the city. Oops.
shareThere's talk of possible sabotage, though. If that turned out to be the case, I don't know if it would be suitable for Mayday. They've done a few criminal cases involving plane hijackings, but this would be like a murder case, not an accident investigation.
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Everything is pointing to company cost-cutting measures which left just lone engineer to handle the entire train. It was an accident waiting to happen.
shareWell, then it would certainly be a perfect case to dramatize on Mayday. Even better than the two other train episodes - the one in California, where the train was overloaded coming down the mountain, and the Canadian one where the two trains collided because the conductor was asleep.
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Unfortunately the train and ship disaster episodes had poor ratings. So sadly no more trains and ships. But that was way back in the early 2000's, who knows, perhaps a renewed interest from the public might persuade the broadcasters to revisit them.
shareThat surprises me. I like this show so much I paid an obscene price for the season 1 through 12 box set, and I like the train and ship disaster episodes as much as the air disasters.
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Yeah a lot of fans like the train and ship episodes, it's just unfortunate the ratings are low for those episodes and for the 1940's and 1950's air crashes, even though they were visually well done.
The Concordia grounding would be a great episode to shoot as well..,
I agree, the Lac Mégantic disaster would make for a very interesting Mayday episode. And as someone else said, so would the Costa Concordia. Of course I think that the show should continue focusing on aviation stories, but the occasional train and ship story would be equally interesting.
shareThe way it devastated the town, and killed 47 people, it's definitely "big" enough to warrant an episode.
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