User:Whoop whoop pull up/1984 Vermont train wreck

On the morning of 7 July 1984, the northbound Montrealer derailed between Williston and Essex, Vermont due to a 50 foot washout in the embankment carrying the tracks of the Central Vermont Railway, with five of the train's cars falling into the gap. 5 of the 278 passengers and crew were killed in the accident, and 29 more were seriously injured. The washout was produced by extremely-severe flash flooding resulting from a combination of unprecedentedly-heavy rain and the sudden release of water from several beaver dams which burst due to the rainstorm. The crash resulted in "the most massive rescue effort in the state [of Vermont]’s history." It was 6:51 A.M., July 6, 1984, when the Amtrak Montrealer went flying over a washout outside Williston, Vermont. Here’s exactly what happened, leading to the most massive rescue effort in the state’s history