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The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, [1] [2] when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars.
The suspected causes were a lightning strike, [25] train activity [26] [27] or activity inside the community. [6] Multiple residents blamed the Canadian National Railway (CN) and its mainline through the community, "saying that they saw sparks coming from a passing train at the same time the fire started."
A westbound GO Transit train collided with a Toronto Transit Commission bus at the railway crossing between Danforth Road and Midland Avenue just north of the Scarborough GO Train Station. A faulty switch on the rear door had caused the bus to stop while straddling the track. [56] 1979 Turbo Train fire: 29 May 1979: near Morrisburg, Ontario: 0: 0
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Instead, train cars are outfitted with signs encouraging straphangers to alert MTA crew of any emergency, including in case of fire. Trains are not equipped with fire extinguishers.
The train consisted of 106 cars that carried multiple chemicals and explosives, including styrene, toluene, propane, caustic soda, and chlorine. On the 33rd car, heat began to build up in an improperly-lubricated journal bearing on one of the wheels, resulting in the condition known among train workers as a " hot box ".