Train Locomotive Engine Was Shut Off Before The Train Runaway To Lac-Megantic

Train Locomotive Engine Was Shut Off Before The Train Runaway To Lac-Megantic

Posted By: RobertS
Date: Sunday, 7-Jul-2013 23:33:08

To further from the post of the reader vb-- http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=281728 Before the train cars carrying crude oil had started to roll off toward Lac-Megantic, their be a fire on a locomotive of this train stopped at Nantes. The Nantes fire department responded to put out the fire. They say it was a fuel leak on the locomotive, so they shut the locomotive down, so as to stop the fuel leak, and to put out the fire. Somehow(?), it be forgotten that the air system for the brakes needs to be replenished, and slowly the brakes released. The fire department say they were at the train at 11:30pm to put out the fire on the locomotive in Nantes. A woman who was visiting her brother-in-law's house in Nantes across the road from the railyard, heard the loud screeching sound coming from by the rail tracks between 11pm and 11:30 pm, or so the timing. So, it is around at midnight or so, the brakes were slowly starting to release, because of no air to replenish the brake system, and sometime just before 1 am the train cars started rolling on the some decline toward Lac-Megantic. At Lac-Megantic the 73 rail cars carrying crude oil was, according to some witnesses, at high speed when it take the curve in the the town centre, and derailed. Ah, now come the time of who did what, wherefore what was was done when the firefighters left, with the representatives of the railway there after their departure. Imagine the train starting to move, and panic, when unable to restart the locomotive(s)..........(?) --from the Globe and Mail, by Kim Mackrael and David Andreatta,Lac-Mégantic, Que. --Train was ablaze hours prior to derailment: fire chief-- --”The locomotive of the 73-car train that devastated a wide swath of Lac-Mégantic, Que., had been ablaze in the hours before it careened off its track and exploded, according to fire officials in the lakeside tourist town and the nearby town of Nantes. “ ---from TVA Nouvelles –Explosions à Lac-Mégantic. Les pompiers de Nantes confirment avoir éteint une locomotive en feu --from google translate--Explosions in Lac-Megantic Nantes Firefighters confirm turning off an engine on fire ”In a communiqué emitted about 36 hours after the explosion which ravaged a whole district of the municipality of Lac-Mégantic in Estrie, the MMA(Montreal Main & Atlantic Railway) claims that somebody would have switched off the engine of the locomotive, so easing off the safety brakes, that would have allowed the convoy to hurtle down the slope. “ ---from TVA Nouvelles--5 morts et une quarantaine de disparus. Bilan inchangé à Lac-Mégantic-- --google translate--5 dead and forty missing. Assesement unchanged at Lac-Mégantic-- ” It is a number which has fluctuated in the course of the day and we remind people who would have found the close relations to inform the police ", called reminded sergeant Benoit Richard, in a press briefing held at the beginning of the evening . The SQ was not able yet to browse all the zone which was destroyed because fire brigades had not still completed their work." . . Robert Smith O'Ghobhain Sarnia, Ontario http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=281829