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elleng

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Sun Aug 18, 2019, 08:04 PM Aug 2019

PROMISES MADE

A Runaway Train Explosion Killed 47, but Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails.

When things go wrong, those in power often promise to make it right. But do they? In this series, The Times is going back to the scene of major news events to see if those promises were kept.

The runaway train hurtled into the center of town shortly after midnight, with no one aboard to apply the brakes or sound a whistle to warn residents about the deadly cargo bearing down on them.

When it reached a tight curve, the freight train, going 65 miles an hour, derailed. Amid a deafening, horrific screech of rupturing metal, more than a million gallons of fuel spilled and exploded.

The blast incinerated most of downtown Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. In a community of just 5,600, 47 people were killed.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/canada/lac-megantic-quebec-train-explosion.html

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