The World's Most DANGEROUS Train Routes

Описание: World's Most DANGEROUS Train Routes

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From the notorious Cajon Pass in California where a runaway freight train plowed through seven houses and claimed six lives in 1989, to the Death Railway in Thailand where over one hundred thousand prisoners of war and forced laborers perished during construction. These are the train routes where the margin for error is almost zero.

In this video we take you along ten of the most dangerous railway lines in the world. Routes where engineering meets the absolute limits of what is possible. The Pamban Bridge in India, where a 1964 cyclone swept an entire passenger train into the sea with all souls aboard. The Devil's Nose in Ecuador, carved into a near-vertical cliff face at the cost of two thousand workers who never came home. The Maeklong Railway Market in Thailand, where vendors have thirty seconds to clear their goods before a full-sized train rolls through the middle of their stalls.

We look at the White Pass and Yukon Route in Alaska, built during the Gold Rush with a gradient so steep that runaway trains remain a real danger to this day. The Tren a las Nubes in Argentina, climbing to over four thousand meters where altitude sickness has stranded hundreds of passengers. The Tehachapi Loop in California, a spiral track where trains cross over their own tail cars while climbing the mountain.

And we examine modern disasters too. East Palestine, Ohio, where a 2023 derailment released toxic chemicals across sixteen states and left a community still searching for answers about whether their homes are safe.

These routes were built by hand, carved through mountains, stretched across oceans, and paid for in human lives. Some are engineering marvels. Some are monuments to suffering. All of them remind us that railways go places that push the boundaries of what should be possible.

Next time you see a freight train rumbling through your town, remember that somewhere out there, someone is doing the same thing on a track carved into a cliff face or stretched across open ocean.