[back_blastnet]

I've been and will continue keeping a very close eye on all the developments regarding this tragedy.

Lac-Mégantic holds a very special place in my heart. Its where I spent many happy summers with my grandparents growing up (they no longer live there). Its where I learned to play baseball, picked up my French Colloquialisms and made some great friends. their apartment backed onto the rail line and it is just outside of the 'blast zone' for lack of a better word. My friends and I used to cross that rail line up to 20 times a day going to and from..

[martin14]

Gunnair Gunnair:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

8O

Rail boss says there are indications of tampering.

Got a link for that somewhere ?

Cuz that's not funny.

[Gunnair]

martin14 martin14:

Gunnair Gunnair:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

8O

Rail boss says there are indications of tampering.

Got a link for that somewhere ?

Cuz that's not funny.

Not meant to be funny.

Was in the NP. CBC reported it not as tampering but putting the blame on the fire dept that might have done something when they put the earlier fire out.

[martin14]

Gazette has a small piece buried on their site.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/mon ... story.html


Something is not right here.

Air pressure generated in truck systems are designed to keep the brakes released, not engaged.
So no air pressure would result in the brakes being fully on, not off.

I can't imagine that trains run differently.




Nope, scratch that, they are run a little differently.

Still, handbrakes not applied ?

[ShepherdsDog]

Video of the explosion.....apparently English expletives carry more weight than French ones.

[raydan]

I don't know many French speaking Québecers that would say "Oh my God!".
The accent sounds like someone from France that's been here for a little while.

[ShepherdsDog]

The fuh king 'ell demonstrated a fair command

[martin14]

Quite the vid.

[Public_Domain]

[raydan]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

Holy hell, I really commend the firefighters who got up to the call and were told to face that daunting bit of hellfire... How do you even approach that...

Very carefully...

[ShepherdsDog]

containment is about all you can do....and let it burn itself out.

[Public_Domain]

[Brenda]

This is the latest from CNN.
The title suggests foul play, but the article itself does NOT

$1:

"There are a number of missing pieces here," Burkhardt told the paper, saying he didn't suspect "the event was malicious or an act of terrorism."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/world/ame ... mpered545p