1.3 are confirmed dead and 40 people are still missing in the town of 6,000 after the freight train, operated by Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway Inc., sped downhill 11 kilometres from Nantes, Que. at 1:15 Saturday morning and derailed. There were 40 buildings destroyed in the series of explosions that razed three blocks of the downtown.
2. There were five locomotives, and each tanker on the 72-car freight train was carrying 100 tons of crude oil. The train was destined for a Saint John, N.B., refinery.
3. The engineer had parked the train at Nantes, 11 km to the west of the crash site. He had shut down four of the five locomotive units on the train, a standard procedure, before heading to Lac-Megantic to sleep at 11:25 p.m.
4. At some point after that, part of the train caught fire in Nantes. Local fire crews were called to put out the blaze.
5. Somehow, the fifth locomotive was also shut down. The crash happened about two hours later.
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013 ... _know.html
here is a link to some photos from Canada's TSB (Transportation Safety Board) Canada
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsbcanada/9238543939/
Interesting that they have a gentleman called Tony Gasbarro who has the title of Senior Multi-Media Investigations Imaging Specialist working for the TSB.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsbcanada/ ... otostream/
While it's hard to imagine that this event has been completely fabricated by the media (how can they fake the razing of 3 blocks in a downtown area?) there are a number of factors that raise suspicion:
First the numbers a72 car freight train (7+2 = 9) parked 11 kms from the city center.
Secondly the "confirmed" death toll has now risen to 13 and there are still reportedly as many as 40 people "missing". There are reports that the area is still too "hot" for investigators to find bodies. (too hot, 3 days later?) and finally it appears that the authorities are not allowing anyone to photograph the scene:
see: http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/07/08/time ... -megantic/
Here are some "before and after" pics from the scene:
http://globalnews.ca/news/701695/photos ... and-after/
I will study these photos for evidence of fakery as soon as I have some time.
it seems like there has been a plethora of "disasters" in recent days, surrounding the July 7th date. I can only speculate as to the reasons behind this flurry of disasters, my hunch is that the primary purpose is to keep the world media from reporting on some other, "real" event, that the powers that be wish to keep the general public from being exposed to.
regards,
Steve O.