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RIP Eomer. You weren't bad for an Oilers fan.

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intelnavi_sl

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Sorry to disappoint, I'm alive.

Pretty fucked up, for sure. I look forward to the investigation results. This whole thing reeks of complete incompetence. The train that eventually blew up had some sort of fire a few hours before it ran away and hit the town. Firefighters and the rail company's employees attended to it, supposedly secured the train on a hill above town, and left for a shift change. An hour or two later one locomotive out of five and 75ish cars takes off down the hill and obliterates the town. How the fuck does that happen? I was under the impression that rail and large truck air brakes fail to closed.

Some people better end up in jail over this shit.
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The firefighters disabled them. Good game.
 
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He's fine. CCCCTV doesn't lie.Canadian Canuck Closed Circuit TV to you layman.

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The level of accepted incompetence in nearly all industries these days is utterly mind boggling. This shit is happening more and more often, seemingly without consequence. If this kind of nonsense happened 70 years ago heads would roll. These days it ends up in the news for a few weeks and disappears again so we can be captivated by Jodi Arias, George Zimmerman, and Casey Anthony.

Not nearly to the scale of this tragedy, but clearly a related level of incompetencehttp://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...de-4-dead?lite

Stupid people need to be left to jobs with seriously limited responsibilities. Like gas station clerks, teachers, and abortion doctors
 
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The facts will all come out, it will take a few weeks or more. Early info is pointing to sabotage, it would amaze everyone here how little security there is in the railroad industry. Espcially when it comes to shortlines (small regional railroads like this one). They run a small operation, usually union free, with out of date equipment and very little enforcement of laws and safety rules.
 
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Bowling Ball Bag Bob_sl said:
The level of accepted incompetence in nearly all industries these days is utterly mind boggling. This shit is happening more and more often, seemingly without consequence. If this kind of nonsense happened 70 years ago heads would roll. These days it ends up in the news for a few weeks and disappears again so we can be captivated by Jodi Arias, George Zimmerman, and Casey Anthony.
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Just because you stop hearing about a story on CNN doesn't mean it's just been swept under the rug. You think stuff like this is happening more and more often because you have access to 100X more information and news you did even 10 years ago. Realistically, catastrophic accidents like this probably happen a fraction as often as they did 70 years ago because of safety measures.
 
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...r-8702460.html

Canada train blast blamed on engineer

He failed to apply enough hand brakes, says rail boss


The devastating train explosion that ripped through a town in Quebec, killing at least 20 people and injuring scores more, has been blamed on a company engineer.

Lac-Megantic, a small town in eastern Canada, was hit by a runaway freight train carrying 72 cars of crude oil on Saturday morning. The ensuing blast, which raged for days, razed 30 buildings and obliterated much of the town's central street.

More than 30 people are still missing and presumed dead while just one of the twenty confirmed casualties has successfully been identified and the family informed.

Making his first visit to the town yesterday, the train operator's boss, Rail World's Edward Burkhardt, admitted an engineer had failed to set a series of hand brakes that could have presented the disaster.

"I think he did something wrong," he said, while flanked by police escorts and being heckled by the distraught crowd. "It's hard to explain why someone didn't do something. We think he applied some hand brakes but the question is: did he apply enough of them?

"He said he applied 11 hand brakes. We think that's not true. Initially we believed him but now we don't."

The unnamed engineer has been suspended without pay.
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foop_sl

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Lemeran_sl said:
The facts will all come out, it will take a few weeks or more. Early info is pointing to sabotage, it would amaze everyone here how little security there is in the railroad industry. Espcially when it comes to shortlines (small regional railroads like this one). They run a small operation, usually union free, with out of date equipment and very little enforcement of laws and safety rules.
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I am not sure to which points rails are secured, but in a lot crashes, it's mainly due to companies not wanting to pay extra for the security ( best recent case, the crash in china for ex a couple of year ago).
 
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foop_sl

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foop_sl said:
I am not sure to which points rails are secured, but in a lot crashes, it's mainly due to companies not wanting to pay extra for the security ( best recent case, the crash in china for ex a couple of year ago).
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Shit, barely a day later, a train derailed when it was passing a train station nearby Paris...at least 10 dead..(and 3 years ago, I would have seen it derailing in live...always weird when this kind of occurrence happens. )
 
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