A freight train in the Canadian Rockies goes out of control, heading towards a collision with a passenger train carrying over 100 people.

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From Season 3 Episode 12 "Collision Course": Hinton- February 8, 1986

A calm trip through the Rocky Mountains ends in disaster, when a VIA Rail train slams head-on into an enormous freight train. How did the two trains wind up on the same piece of track? An inquiry makes shocking discoveries about the men who run the freight trains in Canada.

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