Wreck of the Sunset Limited Seconds from Disaster : Season 1 Episode 6
TV-PG National Geographic 1h 00m
Aired: August 10th, 2004 @ 8:30 PM EST on National Geographic
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.
