Who caused the 1995 Palo Verde train derailment, killing Mitchell Bates? Mitchell Bates, a 41-year-old male, was working as a sleeping car attendant aboard Amtrak�s Sunset Limited on the night of October 9, 1995, when the train derailed in the remote desert near Palo Verde, Arizona. The Los Angeles�bound train was crossing Southern Pacific tracks roughly 60�70 miles southwest of Phoenix in the early morning hours, traveling at about 50�60 miles per hour, when it hit a sabotaged section of rail on a trestle over a dry wash. Two locomotives and eight of the twelve cars
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