The in-depth story of The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster 2013.
The murmur at the Musi Cafe is suddenly interrupted by the loud sound of screeching train wheels. Freight trains pass daily up and down the track just a few yards away from the cafe. However, the intensity of the sound indicates something is wrong with the train. Then, five locomotives rush past at a staggering speed. They are followed by a composition of 72 tank cars filled with crude oil, grinding across the track and colliding against each other. Then, suddenly, the ground shakes when a powerful blast and heat wave hit the cafe..
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You read every sentence in the exact same way. Once you hear it, you can't unhear it. There is a lack of natural cadence and variation in your prosody. You raise the note of the first part of the last syllable in each senTENce. Like THIs. It becomes jarRIng. Just some contructive crItIQue.
Canadian "experts".. no wonder Trudeau is the prime minister..
Wasn't cold that night, eh?
Watching this instead of downloading CBCs stupid app
Unfettered greed will destroy us all. We can't just keep twiddling our thumbs as we suffer with these careless profit-grubbing corporations and the wealthy assholes who run them… This tragic story is too familiar. This shit just keeps getting worse.
80% companies fault 20% engineers fault
Correction: Securing handbrakes doesn’t require much strength at all, my 9 year old could properly secure 15 handbrakes without breaking a sweat.
SO much safer than those evil pipelines!!
U.S. Congress should’ve passed legislation immediately requiring two-man crews across the rail industry. I’ve been railroading for 16 years and I can tell you firsthand that this incident is a railroaders worst fear. Single-person train ops are unsafe and cause an undo hazard to the citizenry as well as public infrastructure. It’s so obvious that two-man crews are much safer, yet for years Class 1 RR’s in the US have been pushing to reduce train crews from two persons onboard down to one person. The TSB estimated that somewhere between 17 and 26 hand brakes would have been needed to secure the train. Had there been a two-man crew, either both locomotive crew, or one locomotive crew and one ground crew, they would have been able to perform a stabilization test, by releasing all air brakes and ensuring just the hand brakes would hold the train. Since there was only a one-man crew this test was not possible.
At least it didn't happen in America
The engineer was found to not be at fault and walked free. He couldn’t have done anything to stop this.
what a bunch of scumbags to flip the blame
Let’s see “just stop oil” stand in protest in front of a train like that
Why there was such a sharp turn right after a downhill section? It was an accident waiting to happen, even if in this case was preventable by engaging more handbrakes. Imagine it was a sudden failure, there would be nothing to do to prevent the train from derailing.
That's not Tom Harding's fault. He even asked if he should come back after the firefighters had put out the fire and was told not to. It's the fault of the people who allowed the faulty part to be fitted.
Those 3 were railroaded. The railroad company should have been held responsible
Ignorance caused this.
Who thought hauling that much oil was a good idea?
Sorry, it makes no sense to me.
Air brakes on most heavy equipment works exactly opposite way: air required to release the brake, not to hold it.
If you cut the line or kill the engine – it will apply brakes.
The railroad always throws their employees under the train. It's disgusting
I’m actually disgusted that the Austrian investigation was corrupt as it was.. like.. I get its a sense of pride that’s on the line for some companies… but to manipulate evidence in that companies favour..
One person to handle that massive train is INSANE
The Federal government of Canada are the only ones to blame of Criminal negligence causing death.
Wth, I thought the whole point of airbrakes is that they engage when they lose pressure…
At least there was no need to pay for the incinerations.
This same thing happened again in Field BC in Feb. 2019..Not properly setting braking systems when parked on a hill, and not just any hill but the Big Hill before the Spiral Tunnels. Three CP employees were killed and CP was lucky they were grain cars that dumped into the Kicking Horse River in Yoho National Park and not anything toxic that would have contaminated the Kicking Horse all teh way to the Columbia River system. CP walked away from that one too unscathed. No one learns anything…Its all about the money. CP is too big to face true justice.
IT WAS COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE. The QC and ON governments at the time were busily making it next to impossible for Canadian oil-producers to get their oil to central and eastern Canada: "We won't have any of that Alberta filth down here…". So, instead of using our own domestic oil – we import BLOOD OIL from Nigeria and Argentina, shut-in available pipelines, and force producers to deliver using rail. Way to go. Sadly this will happen again. You can blame the Liberals'.
THAT is what happens when you work the men to the point of exhaustion. I certainly would't want to be that poor sod……
Seems like if your rich enough you can get away with murder
RIP to the victims!!!!! 🙁 TX for the video!
That Harding guy is really the main culprit here, nobody can convince me otherwise.
IF he really was considerate about security, he would have insisted for better measures.
IF he had any integrity, he would have put the safety of his train above EVERYTHING yet he did not.
Tom Harding is a multi murderer.
Happy 10 year anniversary to the day of putting the fire out
Heard about this today as the 10th anniversary of this disaster. RIP to those involved.
U.S. companies like the owners of MMA, cannot be touched by what they do or don't do in Canada; they will always walk away from it like Mr. Burkhart did. Blaming the 3 employees was like firing the office boy when the company goes broke. I live 15 miles from the old MMA base and I really liked how the Quebec Provincial Police showed up at Tom Harding's home with a swat team on a Sunday afternoon, arrested him, frightened everyone present, and perp-walked Harding to jail and the court house. Everyone who knows anything about trains knows that the real direct cause of the disaster was unfortunately the volunteer firemen shutting off the lead engine. Of course how could he know this would disable the braking system ? If Harding had been called back to the train, he would have shut off the defective engine and started one of the other four; the train would not have moved ! RIP all those poor 47 people who died.
Plus, 2 operators are nessececery
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the train derailment disaster. 47 people had perished because of it, and there was a suicide that followed making a total of 48 deaths.
Lol this is so much lies!!!!!!!!!
also sometimes in a job you have to go beyond what your job is requried for safety, if you cant lift or move stuff that you got hire for then you shouldnt work like im a construction worker but i cant lift wood or paint which somethimes that basic knowlegde
this what happens when you cut corners.
Unimaginable.
It's all about the bottom line. Need to keep the investors happy.
So mayor Pete may not be the best at train safety.