Don’t Blame the Cargo: Improve Railway Safety
By Robert L. Bradley Jr. On a cool night in July, 73 pressurized oil tankers began an unmanned descent into the tiny town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec. The Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train cars detached from their locomotives, barreled four miles downhill, and exploded in town. Forty seven people perished. The annihilation was so complete […]