Roseville Yard Disaster: Memories still smolder 50 years after explosion

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CBS News Sacramento

Жыл бұрын

Fifty years ago on Friday, a rail car carrying bombs bound for Vietnam exploded in Roseville.

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@lisaanderson3385 Жыл бұрын

I remember this! I was really scared! I can’t believe it’s been 50 years.

@KurtElliott Жыл бұрын

The train explosions woke us up 15 miles away, we were going to live up by that train yard, we are lucky we did not move there!!!

@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking 2 ай бұрын

_Recently more bombs have been found, and removed._ WHAT!? Holy crap!

@billfoster213 Жыл бұрын

I was 14 and lived by Sheridan, the blast was felt over 20 miles away and we heard explosions after the main blast for hours.

@mcdlb181 Жыл бұрын

I was 10 watching Saturday morning cartoons in Folsom, we lived on the highest development at the time , we could see the mushroom clouds from the explosions . Ahhhhhhh the good ol days

@billfoster213 Жыл бұрын

We used to live 2 blocks from the prison, and I rode the school bus inside daily. We moved to Wheatland a few years before the Roseville explosion. The good old days...😂

@mcdlb181 Жыл бұрын

@@billfoster213 Rugosa drive is where we lived on the top , dad worked at the prison , we used to go to the public canteen worked by the prisoners and gas station, prisoners would greet us as Mr and Mrs and young man . This is back in the day when prisoners had no rights because they choose to not follow the rules

@billfoster213 Жыл бұрын

@@mcdlb181 we lived on the corner of Henderson and Fargo , a block from the hospital. My dad was a salesman for Bob West Ford, back when they were in town on Sutter Street. We had a coffee table from the prison workshop, made by a prisoner in the early 60s.

@billfoster213 Жыл бұрын

@@mcdlb181 did your bus go in the prison? You only lived a few blocks from me...

@mcdlb181 Жыл бұрын

@@billfoster213 I never took the bus but yes it did

@dianapost6444 4 ай бұрын

It knocked us out of our beds in Fair Oaks. I was 15. After we found out what it was on the radio we called friends to see if they were ok. Then my brother and I spent the day at El Camino high at a track meet. The explosions went on that night. Insane to be moving bombs through residential areas.

@peggyharrison5377 Ай бұрын

I remember this day I was young and rather scared.

@Neil-ru7kw 2 ай бұрын

My boss and I were hauling loads of logs from nevada city area to the port of Sacramento . We passed by on I-80 3 minutes prior to the first explosion . We pulled over and saw where the smoke an booms were coming from and knew it was the yard . We thought it was being bombed by the commies . Someone one the c.b. told us what was happening . A wow day for sure !!!!!

@happydays0220 Жыл бұрын

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@uprrslo Жыл бұрын

Why didn’t you show the actual video of the incident???? Dislike for not your due diligence.

@hewhohasnoidentity4377 Жыл бұрын

50 years ago if you wanted a video of something you had to bring hundreds of pounds of equipment to the location, find a power source and spend a couple hours setting it up. The railroad didn't give anyone advance notice of the time explosion so there were no videos.