Train Derails in Lac Megantic Quebec, causes Massive Explosion

[Boyiee]

I hate that Rata is like the main source here. I cant understand whats going on by reading this thread

Just be careful not to fall down your chair.

[Ratatapa]

What you can't say that ??? .... /sigh

[Ragns]

I'm going to hell for this...

[Coren]

Looks like the Unstoppable movie's alternate ending, only in Canada.

Apparently there's still 40people missing? That sucks. Isn't this the same tarsands bullshit that would be running in Keystone XL pipeline? Sure looks safe to me!

[tyven]

I hate that Rata is like the main source here. I cant understand whats going on by reading this thread

i was about to make a post saying that while i am sorry about this incident i LOVE that rata is the main source. its hilarious

[Cream Soda]

Mother of fuck :/

[Ratatapa]

I really feel bad and sad for all those people

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2...d_enraged.html

[Abandon]

i don't know what's going on here. I'm gonna try to piece this together.

Train is on fire.
Firefighters cut power, as is procedure, to fight said fire.
Train decides it's going to fuck off and leave anyway.
Train derails, and there's a fucking fuck-all fucking fireball
canadians burn up, town is kaputz

??

[Ratatapa]

i don't know what's going on here. I'm gonna try to piece this together.

Train is on fire.
Firefighters cut power, as is procedure, to fight said fire.
Train decides it's going to fuck off and leave anyway.
Train derails, and there's a fucking fuck-all fucking fireball
canadians burn up, town is kaputz

??

the tl:dr ya it's that

[Drex]

So the only braking system(s) the train had required constant electricity to function? Am I the only one shaking my head at how retarded that is?

[Ratatapa]

It's not electric it's air functioning but he's he fact that the air is going out when the power is off is stupid

The mma president is going to lag megantic today or tomorrow

Last thing he is said is I hope I won't get shot

Lol

[BaneTheBrawler]

i actually know a little bit about train air brakes (or at least old ones that helped kick off the railroad expansion boom in the U.S.) and they operate on compressed air... which forces them open. if you disconnect the source, the cars lose pressure and the brakes slam shut, causing each individual car to stop on its own. this was revolutionary because no one had set it up backwards like that before, and it let trains slow down much more quickly w/o derailing, which let them go faster, expand further into the U.S., etc. Unless they've radically changed such a basic feature, what you are describing makes no sense because losing power should force the brakes to brake.

[Ratatapa]

i actually know a little bit about train air brakes (or at least old ones that helped kick off the railroad expansion boom in the U.S.) and they operate on compressed air... which forces them open. if you disconnect the source, the cars lose pressure and the brakes slam shut, causing each individual car to stop on its own. this was revolutionary because no one had set it up backwards like that before, and it let trains slow down much more quickly w/o derailing, which let them go faster, expand further into the U.S., etc. Unless they've radically changed such a basic feature, what you are describing makes no sense because losing power should force the brakes to brake.

But air brakes are crucial to a train’s ability to safely speed up and slow down. “The engine has to be running for the air pump to be working,” said Rex Beatty, president of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. The Teamsters union represents thousands of engineers and conductors in Canada, but not at Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway. The Maine-based company says its locomotive’s air brakes were somehow released during a series of events that led to the derailment.

If the locomotive’s engine is shut down, then air is not being circulated to a reservoir. Without air pressure, the brakes “bleed,” and the spring-loaded system doesn’t function because proper pressure is required to force the air that applies the brakes to the train’s wheels, Mr. Beatty said.

“Whenever you leave a train, you must secure it. You have to put on hand brakes and you have to make sure there is continued air pressure,” he said. “If there isn’t continued air pressure in the brake lines, eventually the air leaks off.”


Source. : http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle13084764/


I know shit about trains but I know they interview different train conductors and they all said that air breaks will release if the locomotive have no power for a while like 2h or more

[Cail]

Fire was visible from space:

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images...013185_187.jpg

[Churchill]

that's not really from space, it looks like pretty low quality SAT IR

[Tyrath]

Holy fuck at those explosions.

[Cail]

that's not really from space, it looks like pretty low quality SAT IR

What I meant, not what I said. I had just woke up ;;

[Ragns]

[BaneTheBrawler]

But air brakes are crucial to a train’s ability to safely speed up and slow down. “The engine has to be running for the air pump to be working,” said Rex Beatty, president of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. The Teamsters union represents thousands of engineers and conductors in Canada, but not at Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway. The Maine-based company says its locomotive’s air brakes were somehow released during a series of events that led to the derailment.

If the locomotive’s engine is shut down, then air is not being circulated to a reservoir. Without air pressure, the brakes “bleed,” and the spring-loaded system doesn’t function because proper pressure is required to force the air that applies the brakes to the train’s wheels, Mr. Beatty said.

“Whenever you leave a train, you must secure it. You have to put on hand brakes and you have to make sure there is continued air pressure,” he said. “If there isn’t continued air pressure in the brake lines, eventually the air leaks off.”


Source. : http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle13084764/


I know shit about trains but I know they interview different train conductors and they all said that air breaks will release if the locomotive have no power for a while like 2h or more

yeah, see, that's a radical departure from common fucking sense.

[Abandon]

it IS a ratapata thread.