Posted on 07/09/2013 7:43:28 AM PDT by mandaladon
CNN) -- The chairman of the company whose driverless train barreled into the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic and unleashed a deadly inferno told a Montreal newspaper he believes it had been tampered with. "We have evidence of this," Ed Burkhardt said in an interview published by the Montreal Gazette. "But this is an item that needs further investigation. We need to talk to some people we believe to have knowledge of this." The company did not immediately return phone calls from CNN about the report. Burkhardt is the chief executive officer and president of Rail World, the parent company of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, the operator of the derailed train. Seventy-two tanker cars carrying crude oil jumped the track early Saturday, setting off a huge fireball. At least 13 people are dead and 37 are missing. Officials in the town 130 miles east of Montreal say some were likely vaporized by the sheer intensity of the blaze, which burned for 36 hours.
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Go to the other thread (link posted above) and read the replies. It’s all explained pretty well there.
“Tampered with?” Sounds more like sabotage to me.
Here's the story I read.
so firefighters shut off the engine to stop the flames from spreading. That slowly disengaged the air brakes,
That DOES seem wrong, doesn't it?
40 years ago that nearly happened in Denver.
They had a run-away with a tanker full of chemicals which would have killed at least 10k.
Friend at Shell Chemical told me about it.
Info by FReeper Mycroft Holmes:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3040657/posts?page=27#27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake
But that system is not intended to hold the train indefinitely. It is designed to give the train operators time to set each hand brake on each train car.
and he is also THE PERSON responsible for rigging that Chevrolet truck to explode when it was hit by another vehicle when he worked for NBC.
That little stunt cost him his job at NBC, but ABC stupidly hired the Jack@ss.
The world would be a better place if people like Brian Ross weren't allowed to create "news."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake
So “bleeding off” would of applied the brakes unless they were manually overridden.
Read the other thread (link posted above) it explains how it happened.
Are the cars interconnected, brake-wise?
I would think so.
Can a leak in one place drain the reservoirs of ALL cars?
I don't know.
Seems like the engine should CHARGE all reservoirs, but not be able to DISCHARGE them.
But I'm no train guy (in case that's not obvious).
It’s a real danger, but workable solutions do not lend themselves to this problem.
Pointing out how they can be exploited by terrorists is reckless endangerment in my opinion.
I have ceased to give the MSM any benefit of the doubt. Until solidly proven
otherwise I will assume that Brian Ross and ABC intended to assist terrorists.
The main air supply, that pressures up the reserve tank, as well as holds the brakes open, is connected. Loss of this pressure supply line, closes the brakes, depending on each individual car to hold its own brakes for a time sufficient to apply the hand brakes.
Can a leak in one place drain the reservoirs of ALL cars?
They don't need to all be drained, just enough of them to partially relieve enough pressure. Some were still holding; there was reports of screaming wheels and glowing red brakes.
This could have been sabotage by anti-domestic energy liberals who sabotage trucks and equipment in the United States and Canada regularly.
It is extremely common.
The initial fire between Nantes and Lac-Mégantic that was put out before the train rolled away and caused a far worse fire might have been sabotage. But the reasons this became such a huge disaster really looks like incompetence.
Time line:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/M%C3%A9gantic+fire+timeline/8626739/story.html
Or by diesign
I defer to y’all who know way more than I do about the subject.
That implies that the air brakes alone should NOT be used to "park" the train.
If you're going to walk away, you should put on hand brakes on a majority of cars, I would think.
IN which case, there is no need to keep the engine running, is there? Freezing is not a threat in July.
No worries, when they find the guy he will spend a few years in the looney bin and then be let out on good behavior, you know like the bus head chopper off-er....
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