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1995 Palo Verde derailment



The 1995 Palo Verde derailment happened on October 9, 1995, when an Amtrak Sunset Limited train derailed near Palo Verde, Arizona on Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The two locomotives and eight of the twelve train cars derailed, four of them falling 30 feet off a bridge into a dry river bed.



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