Editor’s Note: Two permanent plaques commemorate the tragedy and lives lost when the Sunset Limited plunged from the Big Bayou Canot railroad bridge into the water. One plaque is permanently placed next to the restored bridge, only accessible by the railroad, and a second plaque is mounted on the wall in the first floor elevator lobby of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in downtown New Orleans. – Corridorrail.com Editor
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Mobile, Ala. (WALA)- It remains the deadliest accident in Amtrak history. A tugboat pushing a barge rams into the Big Bayou Canot railroad bridge, forcing a train off the tracks and into the water. Forty-seven people were killed.
Saturday marked 25 years since the Sunset Limited train crash. Fox10 News was there as one family visited the site for the first time since their loved one Michael Vinet was killed.
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