*huge train collision* nobody dies *tiny car wreck* almost 20 people die

Trains collide in a tunnel, locomotives destroyed, 5 amtrak cars and one MBTA coach crushed, cause structural damage and a hole in the street, and their death count was ZERO?!?!?!

It's a shame the apprentice was canned. It sounds like he made the mistake of listening to that moron who was training him. Glad no one was killed in this situation.

Honestly, I think that only Copeland should've been fired, as Abramson was inexperienced and had a bad instructor (Copeland).

And of course 3 years later, we had the Sunset Limited wreck.

It's an accident that all Boston/MA railfans know and remember... Even though we were not around 29 years ago....

This made me surprised, I'm not kidding, it did. That no one was killed but 453 were injured and the wreck.

I feel bad for Abramson because he was just inexperienced,and had a bad teacher

And with that, you’ve done documentaries for all the wrecks in your very old video “Top 5 deadliest wrecks in Amtrak’s history” video. Way to go Thunder!!

Imagine just casually driving, and a giant hole appears in the road... That would be terrifying!

My close friend happened to witness the full crash while she was waiting, several tracks over, on the Back Bay Station platform for the Orange line subway train, to go to her job in downtown Boston. Not only did she see the collision, she mentioned that the noise of the collision was huge and extended, as the approximately 76 mph traveling Amtrack train, derailed, collided with the adjacent Commuter Rail train, and jack knifed, punching a hole in Dartmouth St, the street level roadway overhead. Days later, shortly after they had cleared the crash carnage, I rode a daytime Amtrack train, going from Boston to Washington D.C., slowly past the crash area, with columns and surfaces temporarily shored up, as tunnel repairs were being completed.

I feel bad for the apprentice getting fired. The teacher was flawed. I wonder how the kid made out. Great video as always. What could be KZfaqs reason for not monetizing your videos? Stock in Amtrak? Lol.

I remember this happening. Dartmouth (Pronounced “Dart-Myth) Street had to be re-paved. It didn’t make a hole but the engines hit the ceiling of the tunnel so hard the part of the street sunk down a bit. Another great video, friend!

Car crash at 4 miles per hour: DIE Train crash at around 60 miles per hour and almost all the stuff destroyed: I’ll allow it

Ladies and gentlemen, he is back, this is not a drill, HE IS IN FACT, BACK

I’ve been binging your videos for the past day or so & I have to say this is one of my favourites so far. How on earth no one died in that crash to me is a miracle - a train literally landed on top of another train and killed no one…. Wow. Deffo one of my favourite KZfaqrs atm!

I felt that happen while in my apartment at 400 Columbus Avenue getting ready for work. I worked in the building I lived, so I left and went to see what all of the chaos was at Back Bay Station. I always thought that there was one or two deaths as a result of that, but I could be wrong.

It’s confusing of how nobody died my brain is hurting trying to process of how nobody died

Why oh why am I so in love with AEM-7s?? They are shaped like a loaf of bread, and here I am wanting a sammich.

Great video. I remember this collision. I was 10 yrs. old when this happened and remember trying to get through that area with my parents. Thanks for the memory friend, you are a great uploaded of these kinds of stuff. Have a happy holidays and hope yt won't demonitize you further.

On December 12th, 1990, Amtrak Train 66 The Night Owl collided with MTA Commuter Train 906, 453 were involved injured the crash collision and there were killed in the collision. The accident cost 14 million dollars in damage.

Love your videos, please dont stop making them! I’ll donate as soon as I can!

This will probably be just as exciting and interesting as every other train wreck documentary you made. After watching, i was right.

A major reason for the lack of fatalities was that it happened in the middle of Boston. Many ambulances and hospitals. No fire. None of the cars telescoped because the trains didn't collide head on.

Finally. I’ve always wanted to know more, a lot more About this train crash then I was actually taught in 6th grade. Thank you so much for making this!

When the amtrack train was derailing i got an ad, DARN YOU ADS!

I once raildanned at back bay station.... I could see the turn where the collision happened.

YES I BEEN waiting for this to come!!!!!

Great video documentary. I was not aware of the history of this accident. Thank God no one was killed. Thank you for putting this together. Why in the world would KZfaq defund your channel?

me: how many people died thunderbolt: amazingly not a single person was killed *O K T H E N*

I love this channel so much it’s interesting and train wrecks I never knew about it’s crazy

Great video! also loved the use of Train Simulator! :D

You've really branched out further than I thought!

The fact nobody was killed in this wreck was a miracle.

It’s such bull that KZfaq demonizes these videos keep up the great work

Your reenactments are awesome! Subscribed.

Training costs money, crews work hours that are too long. Years ago a New Haven passenger engineer had 20 years on freight before he went on passenger. Not just a few weeks! Plus that mail car on the head end saved peoples lives. No mail is on Amtrak anymore, the railroads and the trucking lobby demands that business.

You do a great job on these train crash videos

I love your videos!

Hey just a tip: I know you probably do already, but maybe watch through your vids and listen to the audio levels? I live in an apartment with 3 roomates and you're awfully quiet, but every sound effect is loud AF as is all the music you use. It makes watching these a little tedious having to adjust the volume all the time, but they're great other than that. Keep it up

I really appreciate your work mate. I absolutely love my model trains and watching the weird and wonderful trains that roll through my sleepy seaside town in the UK. It's great to remind people, including myself, of the potential dangers these wonders of engineering pose. Thank you all the best!

I'm here a year later, on the 30th Anniversary of this crash. Y'know, sometimes, when I watch more modern videos of Railfanning at Back Bay, when the camera faces down to the curve where the crash happened, you can feel the presence of 1073's Spirit, watching down on its living brethren, which are still thriving 30 years later. At least I can feel it. (Still, someone should probably make some kind of MBTA Ghost Story with 1073's ghost.)

Never knew about this, and I've taken the MBTA line from Back Bay maybe 20 times, it's weird to have been to a place where a crash occurred and just have no idea at all

I will remember this like it was yesterday. Our church responded to set up tables in the station to hand out coffee and food to the rescue workers and clean up crews. Seeing these massive objects strewn about like on the living room floor just baffled me. And then to go top side and see where the street above had buckled......Glad I was able to help, there we no serious injuries or fatalities.... and will remember forever. I was 17 years old. Thank you for the story.

Holy crap, I've been taking MBTA commuter trains via Back Bay for almost a decade (well, was taking it, up until covid) - and never heard of this!

Hey, nyc video, I had almost seen all your documentaries(sorry for bad English 😅) Hat's off to you dude. From:-An Indian Railfan😎☺️

Me when the train was about to die: oh gosh this can’t end well KZfaq: *SEE AN AD BEFORE SEEING IT*

You can regulate it and create all the warning devices you want. Humans will always find a way to circumvent it and have accidents.

Aside from some minor pronunciations, your content is phenomenal. Thank you!

I had no idea this happened when I was 9. Very cool video.

8:12 but why fire the one that was learning the route? I mean wasn’t it solely the guy with a sketchy record’s fault? Wasn’t Abramson innocent or was he not

I’ve also been to the city a couple times, i only went down there last month for emergency surgery, I haven’t seen a single train ever since 2015

LETS GO WELCOME BACK THE ONE THE ONLY THUNDERBOLT

thank you for great video and share with other

How the hell did no one get killed in this wreck? It looked fatal as soon the Amtrak PH left the tracks and hit the coaches and tipped over. Another brilliantly narrated vid Thunderbolt, keep it up

I love the little details he puts in

5:46, It’s Pelham Bay, Not Pel-Ham Bay

Thanks for your videos. I just discovered them and I find them interesting. It seems to me that these train accident investigations are much more likely to conclude human error as a root cause than airplane accidents. I'm not sure if that's a difference in how investigations are conducted, or a difference in how train operate compared to airplanes.

They were blessed to be alive from that terrible accident

can i suggest the dec 30 2013 casselton nd bnsf collision and explosion

Love your vids

Trust me, I completely appreciate your KZfaq situation. (Not to mention, I'm a former Philadelphian.)

I just love the MBTA

T commuter rail had center door Comet type cars at the time? It was my second year at Conrail. A coworker mentioned that the Amtrak train's steam lines caused condensation in the air lines for the brakes. Ice blocked the brake line and caused the brakes to fail. He said. I explained to him that Amtrak trains are electrically heated so no steam condensation could have affected the brake system.

What cause the crash between the two trains at back bay station?

It's amazing how no one died, you'd expect much more damage in such a small space.

Hey man good job you did great 👍

Great video 🚂👍

What music is that at the beginning of the video tell me

How are you Thunderbolt? Also, love the videos.

Great video, love the songs

Where was the train crash sound from?

The Angles were working over time that day. That's b.s. the rookie was fired.

What is the name of track starting at 5:10?

What’s the song on the title screen?

Well, the collision sound is literally a bunch of crashing shopping carts and brakes

Would you consider the 2007 Amtrak Pere Marquette collision?

Great video

76 mph in a 30 mph zone? WHAT IN THE DISREGARD FOR SAFE OPERATION?! WHAT IN THE DANGEROUS SPEEDS?!

great video as always!! when the viareggio accident? :D

I wish I could support you. But I can barely afford gas for my car right now. Maybe I will once I get a better paying job. Also, how’s the hunt for a new video platform going?

This crash happened on my birthday...

I know what you said in your original silver line fire video but may I suggest the tangiwai rail disaster 66 year's later? If it's alright with you.

I’m amazed no one died in this crash. I have a request: Tay Bridge Disaster 140 Years Later happened on December 28th, 1879. Probably one of the darkest train disasters in the UK

What is a material handling car?

what is that song in the intro??? i need to know

What cost the damage is?

That was the deadliest train accident in the northeastern corridor, since the chase Maryland collision

This is just crazy. So many places hires inexperienced workers and it always only ends one way: with a disaster. It isn’t just train driving. It’s even amusement parks, water parks and more. People are so irresponsible. Education first, safety knowledge second, and then you can hire them. And not to talk about the guilt that the inexperienced workers have to carry with them each time something bad happens. They did the right thing to fire the conductor but I feel bad Abramson. He just needed to be taught by someone who takes their career seriously.

That bandicam badge takes me back. Oh man that's old school screen recording. Lol

What game is used for the background

Anyone know the music from the beginning of the video?

For a train crash in a tunnel (the most inconvenient place for such an event to occur), it's quite a miracle how there were NO deaths.

Love your content and videos! Weren't the two driving the train invoiced in another wreck? They were smoking Marijuana?

This wreck actually occured on the same that was used by the Boston & Albany, NYC 3001 ran on this route before the route ended steam in 1951.

What is a "material handling" car?

Fantastic video, but the line from New Haven-Union to Boston-Back Bay and Boston-South was not electrified when this incident took place.

Can you do the Amtrak 2017 Cascades Derailment

I've been on the Providence/Stoughton Line and plus I live the Northeast Corridor and I knew about the 1990 Back Bay Crash but I was not alive when it happen. I been to Back Bay Station many many times and the curve was a little sketchy. No joke my mouth dropped that no one died in this crash, I'm glad both of those Amtrak engineers got fired and the MBTA engineers were not at fault because they were following the rules.

Thanks for making another train crash documentary