Terrorizing Trains

EP 51

Some people take trains daily some people take them just for ride. We talk about our show going off the rails a lot BUT what happens when tragedy strikes on the railroad?

In 1918 New York was struck by one of the worst Spanish flu epidemics imaginable but life still has to move on. Strikes in the railroad cause a motorman shortage and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company wanted to keep the impact at a minimum so they didn’t reduce service. Instead they asked employees to step up and drive the trains to fill in. What could go wrong in this scenario? Well turns out a lot as the the Melborne St. wreck is notably the deadliest train accident in the history of NY as well as the worst rapid train crash in the history of the United States

Angel Maturino Resendiz was an ass hole who used the rail system to kill (probably) over 20 people, many of which were also sexually assaulted. He would illegally cross the border from Mexico and jump trains to travel all the USA, giving him the moniker “The Railroad Killer”. Unfortunately FOR HIM he left one woman alive and she is a bad ass survivor who helped police but her attacker away for a LOOOONG time!