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<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">Still, we cannot get a clear explanation of what the locomotive did when the train ran away (quoted):</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color:#3366ff;font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:large;">His engineer reported having deployed the hand brakes on a number of tanker cars and on the engines. The brakes on the locomotives eventually held, he said.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#3366ff;font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:large;">They stopped a quarter of a mile away from their original parking spot in Nantes, he said. They did not make it to Lac-Megantic.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I thought the locomotives were on the head end of the train, and the train was headed toward Lac Megantic prior to the runaway. And I thought that train stopped 7 miles before reaching Lac Megantic, and then ran way for those 7 miles into Lac Megantic. So how did the locomotives end up behind the runaway?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">In the meantime, Burkhardt says he hopes he will not get shot when he visits Lac Megantic. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/world/edward-burkhardt-rail-ceo-to-visit-lac-megantic-quebec-hopes-he-doesnt-get-shot-by-residents">http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/world/edward-burkhardt-rail-ceo-to-visit-lac-megantic-quebec-hopes-he-doesnt-get-shot-by-residents</a></span></p>
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