Quebec train set too few brakes, engineer “under police control”

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28. Bullshit. This makes me furious. That's the accusation of the vile pig Burkhardt

The only source saying that Tom Harding is "under police control" that I can find, is the bangor paper. Harding was the entire crew on a train carrying 79 tanker cars (in unsafe DOT111 tankers). Whose shit corporate policy was that? Burkhardt, the asswipe.

Railway CEO Faulted by Union for Blaming Engineer

the head of the railroad in the crash and fatal explosion in Quebec last week is ducking responsibility and prematurely blaming the train engineer for the disaster, a union official in Canada said.

Edward Burkhardt, chief executive officer of Rail World Inc., owner of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd., told reporters yesterday that the engineer failed to apply hand brakes before leaving the train on July 6. The engineer, identified by a union official as Tom Harding, parked the 72-car train hauling oil tankers overnight in Nantes, near the devastated Quebec town of Lac-Megantic.

“I have no respect for a person like this who cannot take his responsibilities and tries to find a scapegoat,” Guy Farrell, assistant to the Quebec director of the United Steelworkers Union, said today in an interview. “It doesn’t make any sense that he should come out and say something like this because there’s no proof of this so far.”

Burkhardt paid his first visit to Lac-Megantic four days after the unmanned oil train rolled from an overnight parking spot into the center of town, where it jumped the tracks, caught fire and incinerated about 30 buildings. Police said 20 people died and about 30 more are missing and presumed dead, making it the worst rail disaster in Canada in more than a century.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-11/railway-ceo-faulted-by-union-for-blaming-engineer.html

Lac-Mégantic investigation: Use of one-person train crew under scrutiny, Transport Canada says

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/M%C3%A9gantic+investigation+person+train+crew+under+scrutiny/8645614/story.html