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Major Rail Accident From Leaking Gas – 1989

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As model railroaders we can get frustrated with derailments and accidents that happen with our model train sets. Sadly, train accidents on real-sized prototype train tracks are far more serious and cause tragedy and mayhem. In this series we look at some of the more serious train accidents from history.

June 4, 1989

Leaking gas from a liquefied gas pipeline engulfed two Trans-Siberian Railroad trains. The huge explosion happened in a crowded rail station outside the Central Asian city of Ufa in the former Soviet Union. It engulfed two passenger trains and killed 575 people.

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