1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck

When

22 Sep 1993

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

30.82° N, 87.99° W

Description

train wreck

Deaths

47

Injured

103

1993 train wreck in Alabama, U.S.

The Big Bayou Canot rail accident was the derailment of the Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train on the CSX Transportation Big Bayou Canot Bridge in Mobile County, Alabama near Mobile, Alabama, on September 22, 1993. It was caused by displacement of a span and deformation of the rails when a tow of heavy barges collided with the rail bridge eight minutes earlier.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа поезда на Биг Баю Канот: у города Мобил в Алабаме (США) поезд упал в реку”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “cerca de Mobile (estado de Alabama) sucede el accidente ferroviario de Big Bayou Canot”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page