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Title: 🚂 Halifax Explosion 1917: The Train Dispatcher Who Stayed at His Post. Thumbnail words: HE STAYED.
0:00 Hook: the last message he ever sent. 0:45 Halifax, December 6, 1917: a busy wartime port. 2:00 A ship full of explosives catches fire. 3:30 Vince Coleman at his telegraph key, and the morning train from Saint John with about 300 people on board. 5:00 9:04 a.m.: the explosion.
6:30 Did he save the train? What the records say, and why historians still disagree. 8:00 The message that reached the outside world. 9:15 Where his telegraph key and watch are today. 9:45 A question for viewers: would you have stayed?
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A fact-checked 10 minute YouTube video outline with title, thumbnail words and chapter times.