The Salton Sea Hides Dozens of Buried Trains. The Truth Is Stranger.

Everybody near Yuma swears the same thing. That dozens of locomotives lie buried under the Salton Sea, whole trains the Colorado River swallowed when it broke loose in 1905 and refused to be stopped. So we checked. We went into the sworn testimony of the engineer who actually closed the breach and the eyewitness account written while it happened, and the official record does not have a single lost locomotive. The truth of what these machines really did is stranger than any buried engine. In 1905 the entire Colorado River turned the wrong way and started pouring north into the California desert, more than 90,000 cubic feet of water every second, and it nearly drowned an entire American valley. To turn it back, the most powerful railroad in the country borrowed 300 steel dump cars, shut down 12 hundred miles of its own main line, and dumped one full carload of rock into the river every 7 minutes, day and night, for 15 straight days. This is the verified story of the Salton Sea, the buried trains legend, and what it really cost. We checked the receipts. Now you know. If your father or grandfather ever worked a rock train or a rail line, tell us in the comments. These are the men who did this. 0:00 The buried trains everyone believes in 2:00 The shortcut that broke the Colorado 4:40 A railroad baron bets a fortune 9:55 They win, then lose everything 15:00 The truth about the buried trains Subscribe for more:    / @machinery-vault