Without Warning
No One Was Driving the Train That Destroyed This Town
21:59
On the night of July 5, 2013, a train was parked on a hill outside a small town in Quebec.Seventy two tank cars of crude oil. Ten thousand tonnes.The engineer had shut it down and gone to his hotel. That was normal. It had been parked there most nights for a year.At 12:58 in the morning it started rolling downhill on its own, with nobody on board.Seven miles later it came into Lac-Mégantic at…