July 5, 2013 – Tom Harding, the lead engineer and sole crew member of a 70+-car train operated by Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) parked the train on a hill a few miles above the town of Lac Mégantic, Quebec, Canada. The lead engine was experiencing mechanical problems and Tom was instructed by headquarters to set the air brakes on the lead locomotive (he left it running to keep air pressure supplied to the air brakes) and applied seven hand brakes. He left the train and checked into a […]