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Lac-Megantic: The runaway train that destroyed a town
BBC New Toronto ^
| January 2018
| Jessica Murphy
Posted on 01/26/2021 6:32:51 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
Nearly five years after one of the worst rail disasters in Canadian history, a small town at the centre of the tragedy is still grappling with the aftermath.
When Tom Harding walked out of the courtroom after being acquitted of criminal negligence causing death, he didn't speak.
The former train driver instead ducked away from the news cameras, overcome with emotion.
His one-time colleague, Richard Labrie, did have something to say.
"Could you back up a little bit so I can look at my paper? Because my eyes are full of tears," the ex-rail worker urged media crowding around him.
"To the 47 victims of the Lac-Megantic tragedy, I want to say that I hope you got the answers you were hoping through this trial process," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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To: Jonty30
Train engineers get tired. Pipelines don’tPipelines do get tired if they aren't maintained. Poorly maintained gas lines usually explode, oil lines generally just leak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents (ignore the excavator accidents and other stupid human tricks on this list).
Investment banker fueled mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures of the natural gas retailer in Dallas has fueled a series of leaks and explosions in the area.
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PAR35
To: woodbutcher1963
“This enables them to move trains/cars around in railyards.”
That’s new information for me! Thanks!
To: null and void
Looks like you’ll get to recycle that for Obama III.
To: PAR35
Just a small sampling of derailments below. My daughter's boyfriend's stepdad drives BNSF trains from Montana to the Washington Cascades through the north Idaho Panhandle. He drives that route along the Kootenai River described below. So many of these western rail lines snake along rivers and are subject to landslides and avalanches. This is the stupidest way to haul petroleum possible.
Of course, that won't be a problem much longer as the ComDems are going to outlaw all petroleum products.
by WaterKeeper | Jan 6, 2021 | Train Derailment
On December 22, 2020, seven train cars on a 108-car BNSF train carrying Bakken crude oil derailed in Custer, Washington, north of Seattle. Five of the cars caught fire and sent off a large plume of black smoke, prompted temporary evacuation orders within a half-mile...
by WaterKeeper | Feb 11, 2020 | Train Derailment
Early morning on February 6th, 2020, a Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed in Canada -- leaking of crude oil and catching fire. The crash, less than 2 miles from the town of Guernsey, Saskatchewan, resulted in a complete evacuation of their community. The Canadian...
by WaterKeeper | Jan 2, 2020 | Train Derailment
Emergency crews have rescued two train operators trapped in a BNSF engine that derailed into the Kootenai River 10 miles east of Bonners Ferry on Wednesday. None of the operators were injured during the derailment reported at about 9 p.m. Tuesday, Boundary County...
by WaterKeeper | Dec 21, 2019 | Train Derailment
A freight train crossing the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry derailed early Saturday morning, causing two cars to tip over a footbridge and plummet into the water.
by WaterKeeper | Aug 17, 2017 | Train Derailment
On the evening of Sunday, August 13, 2017, a Montana Rail Link (MRL) coal train jumped the tracks and dumped more than 3,500 tons of coal along the riverbank of the Cabinet Gorge Reservoir near Noxon, Montana. The train was heading west towards Lake Pend Oreille along...
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