Critics Said They Built It Backwards — Then It Conquered The Deadliest Tunnels

Описание: In the early 1900s, the Sierra Nevada mountains were a death trap for train crews. Trapped inside miles of wooden snowsheds and tunnels, the exhaust from massive steam engines had nowhere to go but into the cab. Engineers were being blinded, choked, and cooked alive by their own locomotives.

Desperate to save lives, the Southern Pacific Railroad did the unthinkable: They flipped the train around.

Critics called it a "freak." Traditionalists said they built it backwards. They claimed the crew would be crushed in a collision because they were sitting in front of the boiler.

But while standard engines were stalling in the dark, suffocating their crews, the "Cab-Forward" became the only machine capable of conquering the deadliest mountain pass in America.

This is the true story of how a "wrong" design became the legendary King of the Mountain.

👇 The Verdict: Was this the smartest safety feature ever invented or a terrifying place to sit? Let us know in the comments.

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