The Boys on the Tracks

A 6 thousand car cargo train ran into two teenage boys on the railroad tracks, but were they caught off guard or placed there intentionally?

The town of Bryant is a small suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas. It’s a town that can thank the railroad for the massive growth and expansion that it brought in the 1970’s. But one thing humanity has taught us is that with a growing population, comes a growing population of bad guys. More citizens leads to more crime and more people in official positions leads to more corruption. Mena, Arkansas, a nearby town linked by the railroad, had a bad case of that. It was home to a drug-smuggler-turned-informant named Adler Berriman Seal. Barry Seal began operating at the Mena Intermountain Regional Airport in 1981 and at the height of his crime spree, he was importing upwards of 1000 pounds of cocaine through the airport a month on behalf of the colombian medellin cartel. It’s a conspiracy that warrants another episode, diving down a rabbit hole into political corruption, drug smuggling, and a conspiracy looming over the CIA. But today we’re focusing on the small town nextdoor, home of Saline County and the unsolved discovery of two teens on the railroad track.

It already doesn’t sound like the safest place to raise a family. In early August of 1987, an…