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Updates needed: convictions
The Trial section only reports on the findings of innocence. The guilty verdicts should be there too. https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/finding-of-guilt-and-guilty-pleas-in-lac-megantic-cases-672781193.html

"Cost cutting"
I find it difficult to trust an article when it immediately jumps in and starts talking about how it was all the company's fault for their "aggressive cost cutting", in multiple places seeming to imply it was a case of heartless corporate types trying to squeeze a little more profit out by sacrificing safety and required maintenance. The truth is the railroad was desperately trying to stay ALIVE at that point, they were cutting costs because every year of operation was actually costing stockholders millions of dollars. If they couldn't bring costs down under revenues, the only recourse was to shut the whole operation down and lay everyone off. They weren't cutting costs because they wanted to, they were doing it because they were deeply in debt and not bringing in enough from the fees they received to cover present costs of operation. It mentions NONE of this, just the evil Corporate Cost Cutting. Which makes me think the entire article was written by partisans with an axe to grind, so I cannot trust anything I read here.

64.222.125.125 (talk) 19:40, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Like this
"The TSB found that MMA's operating plan was to leave the train parked on the main line, unattended, with an unlocked locomotive cab, alongside a public highway where it was accessible to the general public, with no additional protection.[59] However, there were no rules against leaving a train unlocked, running and unattended, even if it contained dangerous materials and was stopped on the main line, on a slope, in the vicinity of a residential area." What is this? This is suggesting that someone could just come along and climb aboard and release the brakes or drive off because the locomotive was left running "with an unlocked cab". Railroads routinely do this. It isn't because they are stupid or because they don't care if someone drives off and wrecks millions of dollars worth of equipment, it's because a locomotive cannot be operated without a special key that each engineer carries. Yes, it would be safer to leave someone attending, but they often don't, but it's misleading to suggest this is like leaving a car running beside the highway. Locomotives are designed to be left running. Although when I think of it, if they stopped the train because a locomotive was belching smoke, and then shut down 4 of 5 locomotives, why did they leave the malfunctioning one running? I assume they had their reasons (only the leading engine can control the train?) but it seems strange.

64.222.125.125 (talk) 00:31, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * That's normal for trains, yes. The lead engine is the only one that's manned, additional engines rigged as 'helpers' are remotely operated from the lead. 174.127.163.4 (talk) 07:27, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Musi-Café misplaced on map
I added a request to see if someone kind and talented could fix it. Brycehughes (talk) 02:08, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It has been fixed. Brycehughes (talk) 13:13, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

General update required
This article needs a significant update. I came here to learn more following listening to this radio article which mentioned the disaster, the recovery and the memorial. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0015vbj I would add the link into the article, but it would be very disjointed from the main article. 92.22.49.238 (talk) 11:28, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

How to an article on Wikipedia
Hello my people, I have encountered a little bit challenge on how I can add an article into Wikipedia, if anyone is aware of it. I need help Sadam jamaldin (talk) 14:07, 9 October 2023 (UTC)