THE LAC-MÉGANTIC RAIL DISASTER
Episode 236 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of July 6th, 2013 — a 73-car freight train carrying 7.7 million liters of Bakken crude oil that rolled unmanned down a hill in Quebec and derailed in the center of a town at 105 kilometers per hour, killing 47 people and destroying half of Lac-Mégantic's downtown. The fire burned for five days. The train's engineer had gone to a hotel for the night. A locomotive fire brought out local firefighters who, in extinguishing it, inadvertently disabled the air brakes that had been holding the train on…
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