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...Railways have been pressing for improvements in tank car design to avoid a repetition of disasters like the Lac-Mégantic explosion in Canada in 2013, in which 47 people died when a poorly secured oil train...
...A series of fires and explosions on trains carrying the US’s increased crude oil production — including the deaths of 47 people in Lac-Mégantic, in Quebec, when a runaway oil train exploded — have underlined...
...Most serious crashes — including the explosion in July 2013 of a crude oil train at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, which killed 47 people — involved cars built to the older, DOT-111 standard....
...The point was most tragically proved last July when a runaway train of Class 111s carrying North Dakota crude derailed at speed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec....
...The crash in Lac-Mégantic was the first of several that highlighted the risks of carrying crude oil in Class 111 tank cars....
...While the December 30 crash hurt nobody, 47 people died in the Lac-Mégantic explosion....
...The current concerns started when a poorly parked train of Bakken crude ran away in July in Quebec and crashed and exploded in the town of Lac-Mégantic, killing 47 people....
...Political pressure on the industry has been growing after a series of accidents involving oil train crashes and fires, including the disaster at Lac-Mégantic in Quebec last July, in which 47 people were...
...The three were addressing the annual Rail Trends conference in New York following the crash in July of a runaway crude oil train that killed 47 people and obliterated much of the town centre of Lac-Mégantic...
...The train involved in the crash appears to have run away in the early hours of August 6 after being inadequately secured at Nantes, 6.8 miles from Lac-Mégantic....
...It was the crude’s flammability that made it catch fire so quickly when the train derailed at high speed in Lac-Mégantic after running away from its parking place in nearby Nantes, the TSB said....
...Saturday’s crash occurred when a train of 72 tank cars parked in Nantes, Quebec, ran away nearly seven miles to Lac-Mégantic, derailed at high speed and then exploded, devastating the centre of the small...
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