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The cause of the accident was believed to be a runaway train, the railway's operator said. The president and CEO of Rail World Inc., the parent company of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, said the train had been parked uphill of Lac-Megantic. The tanker cars then sped downhill into the town before derailing.
"If brakes aren't properly applied on a train, it's going to run away," said Edward Burkhardt. "But we think the brakes were properly applied on this train."
Burkhardt, who was mystified by the disaster, said the train was parked because the engineer had finished his run.
"We've had a very good safety record for these 10 years," he said of the decade-old railroad. "Well, I think we've blown it here."
BUT this morning, on the news they said that this company did not have such a great safety report.
They had a 30000 liters oil spill last month plus a lot of the equipement were judged in insatisfactory and the wagons are often in a neglegted state.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/07/lac-megantic-explosions-fire_n_3556584.html
"If brakes aren't properly applied on a train, it's going to run away," said Edward Burkhardt. "But we think the brakes were properly applied on this train."
Burkhardt, who was mystified by the disaster, said the train was parked because the engineer had finished his run.
"We've had a very good safety record for these 10 years," he said of the decade-old railroad. "Well, I think we've blown it here."
BUT this morning, on the news they said that this company did not have such a great safety report.
They had a 30000 liters oil spill last month plus a lot of the equipement were judged in insatisfactory and the wagons are often in a neglegted state.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/07/lac-megantic-explosions-fire_n_3556584.html