Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
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On July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade and derailed in do
Police helicopter view of Lac-Mégantic, the day of the derailment
GE C30-7 No. 5023, one of the locomotives involved, seen when it was operating for the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1986
Infrared image taken by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite shows the fire that followed the derailment: on the left, taken two days before; on the right, taken about two hours after the explosions.
The Lieutenant Governor-in-Council ordered all provincial flags to be flown at half mast on public buildings for 7 days following the derailment.
Beloeil train disaster
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The Belœil train disaster occurred on June 29, 1864, at the present-day town of Belœil, Quebec. A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River after the crew failed to ob
Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
…train. It is also the deadliest rail accident since Canada's confederation in 1867. The previous Canadian rail accident with a higher death toll was the Beloeil train disaster in 1864, which killed 99. The railway passing through Lac-Mégantic was owned by the United States-based Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA). The…
Photograph of the disaster by A. Bazinet & Co Montreal