On 8 February 1986, a Via Rail passenger train and a 118-car Canadian National Railway freight train collide, killing 23 people. The freight train crew did not stop at a red railway signal on a section of a passing loop. An inquiry concluded that a “railroader culture”, which prized loyalty and productivity at the expense of safety, had resulted in a tired and sick crew of three failing to stop the freight train.
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We just gonna ignore sweaty pits dude in the blue
I've taken this route several times…he is correct. It is spectacular.
the dread i felt when they said the cargo was grain was incredible. i just got done watching the grain factory explosion doc
So glad in the states they require by law no sooner than 8 hours by law.
Jamie must have bad survivors guilt
That badass old guy who smashed the glass with his forehead
Look at that dude's pit stains through his suit at 32:18.
I got news for everybody! In 35 years,at least in the United States-nothing has changed! You can still be on 12 hours,off 8,on 12,repeatedly. Safety never comes into effect at the expense of profit. Crews are run into the ground. The company always says its' "legal". I ran for over 30 years and I will tell you that government regulations are always sidestepped by the company. Their motto is get there no matter what and if smething happens-blame the crew. This is why we need strong unions!
Omg he shoulda pulled the brake
idk why but I just get the overall feeling the guy driving the train had a heart attack and the other 2 were sleeping.
Thinking about those two first cars colliding there's no way a new elemental particle was not born
I thought this was gonna be about Hinton, WV, on the C&O Railroad.
What was the song playing during the engineers wake up radio alarm. I liked the style.
The crew of the CN freight train was pushed too the limits on little sleep, they caused that deadly train wreck with that passenger train! That freight train engineer (Jack Hudson) should have NOT been at the controls! CN railroad should be held responsible for pushing railroad crews to their limits!!
Tired pilots fly planes into the ground, tired drivers crash into each other and tired conductors never stop.
The old man who was about to eat and couldn't even get a bite, that upsets me 🙁
Cn 413 and via rail 4 <– here's the train names
I know so don't ask questions
Sounds like a typical accident report. Ignore the real cause (Management overworking the crews) and blame the victims. The first rule of an investigation is "Always blame the crew."
I think CN is also responsable, not giving his employees enough time for a good sleep. It's easy to put all the guilt on one person. Also CN is responsable.
this saddens me …
Smith was a coward if you ask me, he did nothing to prevent accident, when he didn t hear the front end he should aplied brakes!!!
God blees the pepole on this train
My dad worked for ten years as a train traffic controller…..pretty much the same as an air traffic controller…a big screen with differnt trains all over on it and u have to be sure noone is running into anyone else….terribly stressful job…..i just thought id mention this as many people dont realize the complexity of the railroads..
So they put a good portion of the blame on the crew- two of whom were dead- and not the people who made it so these guys got little sleep, or set unfair expectations that lead to a culture of ignoring safety rules? "You have to follow the rules" it's easy to say that when you've never worked a job where everyone around you is telling you NOT to follow the rules, or if following the rules gets you labeled as someone who is an "interference".
Hell, NO ONE stopped and thought "hey, do you think they should've had more than 3 PEOPLE working this train"! The one guy didn't even know what they were CARRYING. Jesus.
The possibility that the engineer rigged the dead man switch and then likely died is sadly ironic.
I didn't ask for adds to intervene, at least ten times through this documentary, knocking the entire program off air. Won't be back here again.
The loutish shadow metabolically satisfy because wolf concurringly time anenst a small nerve. heartbreaking, soft basement
why do all canadians wanna b freight train conductors?lol
Wow !!
27:10 smiths face shows everything a man can go thru in a few secs, RIP
11:16 is the best part of this episode “do you have experience with trains?” “ yes I blew up 37 wiry my airplane”
Outside of the annoyance of having to look up conversions for metric kilometers and kilograms to Imperial miles and pounds, the video was an amazing re-enactment.
This is fascinating to watch. My Dad told me all about this when I was a kid. I grew up in Jasper and my Dad worked for CN during this time. He worked mostly in the yard and on derailments. He wasn't part of this incident, but knew and worked with most of the crews involved (both incident and clean up) and many of the passengers.
I would blame the crew anyway for their over sleeping hours..if all were a wake there shouldn't be a problem
How could there not be some rock solid measures in place to prevent such a thing? Unbelievable.
Once a wise man once said
"Get oofed snitches"
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Human error is inevitable
As usual, Incompetent Management, trying to throw the Workers under the bus, or in this case, the train.
I can’t imagine how beautiful the scenery is, that is if you aren’t getting blown up!
As someone who has researched and studied train disasters for years as a hobby, I can say with confidence that there is no mystery here (other than the reason why the engineer lost consciousness). It is obvious to me that the engineer and his brakeman were both unconscious well before they exited the siding, and Smith was AT LEAST half-asleep and unable to think clearly, but that was merely the underlying cause of this disaster.
The TRUE cause of this wreck, just as it was in countless wrecks that have come before and will, without question, continue to occur around the world, is the systematic failure on the part of the railway company itself. That is, the failure to enforce its own rules, the failure to take the health and rights of its own employees into account, and ultimately, its failure to learn from the multitude of disasters that preceded this one.
It's just to funny how these rich companies try to blame there own guilt on others.
"I used my head to smash through the glass-eroo? Would this happen to be the UK Ned Flanders? lmao
20:22 captions show "applause"….that definitely needs to be corrected if it's not automatic
Canadian Rockies???
4:50 The half life 1 step sounds killed me xD never heard them used in a actual programe
I feel really
Bad for Wayne Smith conductor of Canadian national 413 train