Atomic Train

Atomic Train is a 1999 American made-for-television disaster-action-thriller miniseries about an accidental nuclear explosion destroying the city of Denver. It was originally broadcast on NBC in two parts on May 16 and 17, 1999. Plot The film starts in Dallas when a school bus full of children, including the teacher, narrowly escapes being struck by an oncoming freight train. In Denver, Colorado, Bradshaw Disposal Services, has a Soviet-era nuclear bomb made in Russia to transport, and an employee; John Henry Bradshaw, decides to save money by concealing it on a freight train, which is also loaded with hazardous and flammable chemicals bound from Stillwater, Utah to Denver, including metallic sodium, which spontaneously ignites on contact with water. 300 miles before reaching Denver, the train suffers a brake failure when the engine compressor explodes, and the air hoses fail, becoming a runaway heading for Denver. The lead train engineer, Wally Phister, attempts to re-connect the hoses before they reach for the portable derailer set up by the Denver railway control, but crushes his hand. John Seger, a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator is notified of the crisis and boards on the chasing locomotive via a helicopter who heads for the runaway, whose driver Ray, is planning to couple up his locomotive to the caboose to try and stop it. Meanwhile, railway dispatchers, Ed and Christina, receives a telephone call from one of the Bradshaw Disposal Systems employees, warning them of a nuclear bomb loaded among one of the railcars. The dispatchers decide to call in the Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) to find answers. In the meantime. they call off the derailment, right as the runaway train arrives at the derailer site in Silver Gorge. This allows Seger and Ray to successfully catch and couple up the runaway train.