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Village evacuated after Quebec train derailment

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That graphic posted earlier about the wreck details shows some information that has not been revealed elsewhere.  That is that all cars on the head end of the wreck derailed.  Hand brakes would have been applied to the head end cars, if they were applied.  If it so happened that some of those head end cars were still upright and on the rails, and if the hand brakes on them had been applied, the brakes would still be applied after the wreck.  And that would be evidence proving that the brakes had been applied as the engineer says.  And conversely, if head end cars were on the rails with no hand brakes applied, that would be nearly conclusive evidence that they were not applied before the runaway.  All of the head end cars are derailed, but the first nine cars at the head end, while being derailed, are not heaped together as the ones further back.  Instead, they are derailed, but separated from each other, and not zigzagged into an accordion pileup.  So there is a fair chance that those head end cars might still show applied hand brakes if they had been applied; even if they are derailed.  There is even a chance that the cars in the heap might still show hand brakes having been set, but their greater damage would be more likely to have caused a set hand brake to release.  But, in any case, those heaped cars are mostly beyond the eleventh car, which is the number of cars on which the engineer claims to have set hand brakes. So those first nine cars should have been immediately checked by investigators as soon as they had cooled enough.  Once they became cool enough to touch, there would have been strong motivations for someone to tamper, and set released hand brakes, or release set hand brakes.       Mr. Burkhardt stated that his company’s investigation indicated that no brakes had been applied to the cars.  However, he did not say what evidence indicated that finding.
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