Train of Doom: Ignored Signals, Crew Negligence and a Medical Crisis | Mayday: Air Disaster

an enormous freight train is out of control tearing through the Canadian Rockies the crew does nothing to slow the Train's terrifying speed Jack are you there charging the other way a passenger train with more than a 100 people on board front end Jack come in oh my God mayday mayday we're doing 90 M an hour out of control take a life jacket where's the crcard don't let go it's one of the most spectac spacular train rides in the world every year thousands of people take the slow and easy way through Canada's Rocky Mountains avoiding traffic they take the train and leave the driving to somebody [Music] else in late winter 1986 a gentle trip through the Rockies will end tragically it was like a mini atom bomb and all of a sudden it ignited w I'm going to help you I can hear the women screaming you know um just save her [Music] baby an investigation makes shocking discoveries about the Canadian railroad industry at that time I didn't think that anything was wrong wrong February the 8th 1986 spectacular Northern Lights dance across the sky over Edson Alberta in western [Music] [Applause] Canada driving freight trains has been a lifelong dream for 48-year-old Canadian national Railways engineer Jack Hudson but after 16 years on the job he knows all too well that it can be a groeling career because Canadian freight trains travel such vast distances up to 12 local Crews may be used in the course of one CrossCountry Journey Hudson Works a mountainous stretch of track through Alberta running between his hometown of Jasper and Edson to the east like many train men Hudson Works a regular beat driving over the same stretch of track then turning around again with another train day after day at around 11:00 p.m. last night Hudson got off the freight train from Jasper and spent the night here in the company bunk house at Edson now he's up again after just 3 and 1/ half hours of sleep ready to return to Jasper at the station he's joined by his Breakman like Hudson 25-year-old Mark Edwards lives in Jasper and like Hudson he hasn't slept very much did you get some rest Not much got to touch the flu could use a full night's sleep Hudson and Edwards will ride up front in the first engine Hudson drives the train while Edwards keeps an eye on the brakes and pitches in if Hudson needs any help known to his fellow railman as Smitty 33-year-old Wayne Smith is Hudson's conductor he's the last of the three-man crew in charge of the freight train this morning as many Smith rides in the Caboose the last car in the train he acts as an extra set of eyes making sure the men in the front end know what's going on behind them the three men are longtime employees of Canadian national or CN rail and all of them have been up and down this length of track countless times before the train they're riding today is enormous CN train 413 is just under 2 km long the cars are filled with a collection of grain metal pipes and chemicals it tips the scales at more than 11 million kilos as the freight rolls into Edson it slows to a crawl but doesn't stop getting it started again would take time and the crew wants their trip to begin as soon as possible Hudson and Edwards take the train on the Fly ing it as it rolls slowly along according to CN rail's code of conduct this is illegal but it's something Crews do routinely with the Caboose still nearly 2 km away Smith stands by the track to inspect the cargo as it crawls by he makes sure there's nothing obviously wrong with the freight or the cars carrying it all set Jack clear signal leaving Edson clear signal leaving Edson another part of Smith's job is to stay in touch with the front end of the train he's supposed to make sure they're alert throughout the [Music] journey now with the Caboose pulling alongside the platform Smith climbs aboard [Music] okay he's got the brakes off you're good to go see you later at 6:40 a.m. Hudson pushes the throttle the freight train picks up speed as its 8,000 horsepower diesel engines open up the CN freight train Begins the Long Hall West to Jasper the men are going home dispatcher to 413 good morning dispatcher good morning Jack but Hudson isn't sure exactly how long his train is or precisely what he's carrying at Medicine Lodge here I haven't had a chance yet oh that's uh you got pretty well All Grain cars eh yeah I think so yeah it should be the right L then okay okay thanks as 413 Roars West a via passenger train speeds East on the same track via rails supercontinental passenger train number four is cruising toward Edmonton Alberta more than a 100 passengers are enjoying the spectacular scenery as it cruises through the rugged Canadian Rockies 36-year-old Jamie hait is a car assembly operator he's headed home to Ontario after a twoe visit to his family in Vancouver it's a very very small community that you're you're you're close proximity with a lot of people very very suddenly and and so there's a lot of people we got to meet and got got to interact with I remember there was a couple of ladies that we that we met over dinner one was was was very very pregnant while some passengers are still sleeping ha goes into the day coach to do some reading before breakfast it's the fourth car in the train I remember this uh this lady and she had a a little boy with her about 3 years old or whatever he was quite an awe the little child was quite an awe of a scenery so I sat down on it and I lifted the shade a little bit so I could get some of the daylight coming in and I started to read a pocket [Music] novel several cars behind hate is 61 one-year-old assistant conductor Herbert timy an old hand on the Canadian passenger line he's been riding this piece of track for 7 years I had to be the assistant conductor and look after the passengers on that train next stop Hinton the passenger train is pulling into Hinton the freight train is just about to reach hawin station 20 km East here the fail line briefly splits into two so trains can pass each other 413 will take the upper track while the passenger train passes below it as Hudson approaches the split in the tracks traffic signal lights tell him to slow [Music] down Smitty you've got an approach limited signal at Harwin next station Dale Hurst over head in to 413 approach limited hard uin next station Dale Hurst out these are the last words these men will ever [Music] exchange the dispatcher in Edmonton sets a switch and 413 is forced onto the upper track the Via passenger train arrives at Hinton station at 8:20 a.m. on board 64-year-old Martin peton settles down to breakfast in the downstairs Lounge of the Dome car he's feeling rested after a good night's sleep a former World War II fighter pilot pedison has a lot of experience with locomotives over the course of the war he blew up 36 enemy trains in France the night before pedison swapped War stories with another veteran he met on board 61 year-old Kenneth cattle is a former Royal Marine it was February I was going to Edmonton to look for another job like pedison cuttle also fought Behind Enemy Lines in World War II cutle and pedison are survivors uh let's go upstairs to the dorm car have a look around see what's happening the train was pretty comfortable you know not many people on board I said let's go up to the Dome car because it was just coming light and we see lots of things which you might not get another chance to see we were in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains there are now 115 people on board but the train will never make it to Edmonton and the passengers and crew enjoying the early morning trip will soon be fighting for their lives it's a clear Sunny morning on board a passenger train in western Canada breakfast is being served as the train rolls East through the Canadian Rockies just 15 km away an 11 million kilo freight train CN 413 rumbles down the track towards it with diesel engines still pounding at Full Throttle it's pulling 113 rail cars of grain and hazardous material from the outside everything looks normal but what's going on inside the lead engine of 4113 is about to become one of the greatest mysteries in Canadian railroad history freight trains and passenger trains often travel on the same track for short sections the track splits so trains heading in opposite directions can pass safely today 413 is on the upper Branch signals tell the freight train to slow then stop completely the signals will only turn green again once the passenger train has passed safely by below then the freight train can rejoin the main [Music] line but 413 isn't slowing down it's now heading downhill and it charges through the warning lights if it doesn't stop soon it will return to the main line at full speed straight into the path of the passenger train unaware of the bizarre behavior of 413 the passenger train continues East Martin pedon gets his breakfast hi up ahead the freighter Thunders through the last set of light signals ignoring three red lights that command it to stop it slams back onto the main line it's traveling 95 km an hour and weighs more than 11 million kilos and still it doesn't slow down Herbert timy sits to relax Ken cutle has a clear view of the Railway ahead i' gotten uh conversation with an English guy and he had his back to the front and I was looking over his shoulder forward the way the train was going there was a flickering light in the distance and not knowing the track layout I thought oh there must be another line and if it's another train it's going to go past us you know just I was reading the pocket novel one of the girls from the party or group happened to just walk past [Music] [Music] me oh my God oh my God and then boom the trains Collide like two charging Rams at a combined speed of nearly 200 [Music] kmph passengers are rocked by one Collision after another as 70 Freight cars pile into the wreckage like an incoming wave great rain cars long pipes 3T in diameter 30 ft in length you name it and these were flying through the air like toys thrown from the tracks by the force of the Collision One freight car flies through the air smashing to a stop on the via train the whole world seemed to explode it was like a mini atom bomb it was a big mushroom of black smoke [Music] then everything was dark they could no longer breathe because everything was filled with smoke oh I'm going to die and the third thing that happened was I just resigned myself to that I've been working about 37 years and uh on the Railroad and I never never seen anything so bad the wave of metal Grain cars stopped just where the Dome car was if it had gone another 30 ft it would have covered us as well in the same car one deck below Martin pedon struggled to escape but he can barely see what's happening in front of him the window beside him shattered during impact filling his eyes with broken glass almost 2 km behind the engine the Caboose of train 413 finally lurches to a stop conductor Wayne Smith sees a ball of fire glowing in the distance but he has no idea how bad the situation is front end 413 I think we're in the bush or we're derailed there is a big explosion up here and we have chemicals on the train so stay away from it stay away from the dangerous goods but all Smith gets in reply is an ominous silence passengers continue to struggle to escape the mangled wreck of their train as the smoke thickens I was trained while in the Marines to survive and to act spontaneously there was a window at the back of the Dome car and it was all cracked and I just jumped up on the seat smashed my head through the glass roof and shouted come on let's get out CLE and others jump from the car and I lo back and all of a sudden it ignited W Down Below in the lounge car Martin Pon also manages to escape but others aren't so lucky many are still trapped in the burning cars including passenger Jamie hate through for the coach had been crunched down me I'd lost my glasses I couldn't see I couldn't breathe and here it was the porter that had been behind the snack bar had opened up this this exit way and he had bed out through it and I took off out behind it [Applause] too step out him he was in shock hey snap out of it hey buddy and pull it together here you know there's people in here and we got to do something about it but half blind without his glasses hate goes back inside trying to help others out of the wreck 413 here dispatcher back in the Caboose Smith is talking to the freight train's dispatcher some 285 km away in Edmonton everything in the air we better get a doctor out here and some herb timy the assistant conductor on the passenger train can hear the conversation on his radio and breaks in Co all over the ditch and get an ambulance and there's a whole bunch of cars on fire you get that dispatcher we need the fire department here very badly some coaches are trapped with passengers inside they're burning I don't think the engineers live through this one it's a real mess okay that's right on the switch at Dale Hurst eh okay yes I'm going to walk up there and see if I can be of any assistance what was the signal at D Hurst when your head and called it pardon me what was that signal on that signal at Dale Hurst well well I was calling him for the signal at ders quite a few times but uh I I kept calling him and there was no answer well it should have been read on the panel well he must have ran it then dispatcher because I could not get a hold of him I tried and I tried okay I'll all right back at the head of the passenger train Jamie hay tries to save who he can are you okay I'm going to help you haate can hear the screams of men and women trapped in the flames and I can hear the women I had dinner with the night before screaming you know um [Music] Tove her baby Pate was not able to save the mother and her child They're Out Of Reach under deis that was uh that was difficult people who were trapped and couldn't get out screaming screaming like you've never heard [Applause] one guy knew that his wife was trapped and he went back in and died with her another woman in the carriage under where we were had most of a leg cutter James ha courageously decides to go back inside the fire is a scorching 660 de but hate tries to save one more life but there was a there was a chop right in front of me there and it was the chop I had had dinner with the night before and all of a sudden the Flames came and consumed [Music] them he just just sat up and rubbed his head and cuz there's nothing more we could do it for him anybody in front of me and that coach was dead for whatever the reasons it wasn't my time to go then for whatever the reasons Wayne Smith is devastated he can't reach his two friends at the front of the freight train and he can't understand what happened to cause such an enormous disaster in western Canada a freight train has smashed headon into a passenger train carrying more than a 100 people in the minutes after the Collision survivors are dragging themselves from the burning wreckage While others are still trapped inside one of the girls that had been in the car in the morning and I looked at her and I said I'm sarry to tell you you're he had no choice but to tell a what happened to her friend in the train you're uh uh your friend was in the car here she died trapped in the burning debris I felt like the worst person in the world cuz I had to tell her if I could have taken back that one second in time to not tell her you [Music] know [Music] Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Mark Lenell is one of the first to arrive on the scene I was T there was a train derailment not a train crash I mean there's a double whammy the RCMP officer came he could hardly speak his mouth dropped open and he said I can't believe what I'm witnessing it's a horrifying scene pictures taken shortly after the crash show utter Devastation I mean I was just flasting I just couldn't believe it and instant that's quite the thing to [Music] see the Collision is 18 km from the town of H Hinton it takes emergency crews some 45 minutes to get there I was in the Marines in England for 14 years I'd seen a lot of a lot of disasters man-made disasters terrorist bombs and I thought I'd seen it all there is a lot of blunt FL trauma of course flying glass Burns and then I saw what appeared to be two bodies in the restaurant car hugging each other so we found out later that was a man and wife and this was one heck of a shock as Lenell is escorting survivors away from the site he sees a lone man with a radio coming down the track how's the uh how's the front end doing uh what's your name it's Smith is about to learn that his colleagues aboard his train are dead like what happened like did they make contact with we're still under investigation and there's not a lot I can tell you right now okay so they still might be I mean I'm really sorry he' be distraught and shaken and his train is wrecked and all these people [Music] dead The Hinton train disaster is the worst Railway accident to strike Canada in 35 years more than $30 million in property are destroyed 23 people are dead and 71 others are severely [Music] injured Wayne Smith is the only surviving crew member of the CN train the only man who may be able to explain how an 11 million kilo freighter plowed head first into an oncoming passenger train what he knows could be critical to unraveling the cause of the disaster 2 days after the Collision the Alberta Government establishes an official Commission of inquiry and The Honorable Mr Justice Renee P fo leads the investigation judge fo is a Justice of the Alberta Court of Appeal it was uh reasonably simple I mean what caused the accident uh but it turned out to be a lot more complicated than that because uh there were no easy answers as to what caused the accident Freight and passenger trains routinely use the same tracks without incident what was different this time over the next 11 months foise calls on 150 Witnesses and Specialists to help him find out agree with you I think what has most surprised me is the the complex procedures the equipment U the overall complexity that uh that we have to look at in running a railroad and what goes on in running a railroad while conductor Smith recovers from the accident foisey gets to work he begins by studying the signals that should have told the freight train to stop if they weren't working the crew on 413 may not have thought they needed to slow down GN did a uh very in-depth test on the signal system and it was determined that um it was performing U properly we went further we uh hired our own independent experts to test the system the switches which operate the signal lights were frozen in position after the accident electrical engineer Eugene couch was hired to read them perhaps a mechanical fault in the system had turned them green telling the freight train to speed through a fault does not give a positive green light to any any situation so if if there was a fault in any controls part of the system it would have forced everything to go to Red which meant the passenger train would have stopped and would have forced the freight train to stop if a mechanical problem wasn't the cause there was a more chilling possibility perhaps someone set the fr train lights to Green on purpose causing the two trains to collide couch dismissed that idea too to do that would mean that somebody would have to actually go there and really maliciously you know change things and there was no sign of any tampering on on any mechanisms basically our conclusion we felt that the system was sound and was safe fo believes the lights were red but the freight train ignored them perhaps another mechanical fault was behind the crash well I was calling him for the signal of D question in his statement after the crash conductor Wayne Smith told Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officers that something was wrong with his radio that morning because I could not get a hold of him I tried and I tried maybe the front of the train was having mechanical problems but they weren't able to get in contact with Smith Joseph abar examines the portable radios the crew used the first test was with the radio that was on the train that was in the accident since that hinted the radio performed to specification but even if the radios themselves were working there could be another problem many CN employees claim there are places along the tracks where radio communication is impossible so-called dead spots and it's not a dead spot that's there 365 days out of the year the possibility was also examined and dismissed sometimes you can't some radios are stronger some are weaker the second test done as far as communication ation between the locomotive and the Caboose was done with the same type of radio as was used at the time the accident took place field test with that type of radio for had satisfactory performers the evidence was uh pretty clear and we concluded that that there were no dead spots one other possible explanation is examined natural phenomena like the Northern Lights can also affect radio performance um got to measure a medicine L Northern Lights can build up very high currents and Communications lines anything even hooked up to a radio could pick it up my determination of it was that uh they were not a factor if the signals were red and the radios were working why had the train crashed explain to me how fo examines an ingenious pie piece of technology the HotBox detector sitting beside the track hotboxes monitor the temperature of a train's wheels and axles they also record the speed of trains as they Roar by when fo and his advisers examine the HotBox data they make a telling Discovery when the front of the freight train passed the HotBox detector just after Harwin it was traveling a little over 60 km an hour but by the time the Caboose passed it the train was going more than 74 km an hour despite the signals telling it to slow down the train was speeding up for the last 5 miles we're able to determine that the uh freight train was going uh at least 59 M an hour perhaps as high as 60 or 61 there were no break applications before the crash as well the crew let the train travel too fast they did not heed signals to stop and they never applied the brakes it all points to a train that was out of control why there were no Brak applications is difficult to understand oh my god with mechanical problems ruled out fo begins to examine the crew of the freight train perhaps there's something about engineer Jack Hudson who was in charge of the train that could explain what happened that day as foise begins sifting through Hudson's medical records and interviewing his family he makes a disturbing [Music] Discovery a train Collision in western Canada has killed 23 people another 71 are injured the man leading the inquiry into the disaster has ruled out mechanical problems judge Renee foise now takes a closer look at Jack Hudson the 16-year veteran who was driving the freight train when fo and the commission review Hudson's medical files they're shocked by what they discover Mr Hudson was a was a man who who was sick he was an alcoholic he had um high blood pressure which was a problematic he had diabetes he had a pancreatic attack uh the summer before this accident he had had to wear a colostomy for a number of months foise wonders if this long list of illnesses could somehow have led to the train crash the engineer Jack Hudson uh had been killed outright in the crash and had severe injuries so we couldn't determine whether there'd been a catastrophic medical event whether he'd had a heart attack for example or a stroke which had incapacitated him but we were able to do toxicology and there was no alcohol or drugs present he did have a lot of health problems and he had some problems at home uh that these problems at home appeared to be on the menend and uh that he was not the kind of man who if he was going to commit suicide would take uh 23 people with him and injure another 70 and some of them very very seriously so we discounted that possibility of a suicide if it wasn't suicide if Hudson did have a stroke or heart attack at the controls why didn't his Breakman Mark Edwards take any action investigators come up with one plausible answer did you get some rest Not much got a touch the flu could use a full night's [Music] sleep perhaps Edwards had been asleep on the job Dr Allison's Smiley is an expert on sleep and fatigue Jack Hudson he had had at the very most before he went on duty that day 3 and 1 half hours of sleep and that is if he slept from the last moment somebody saw him till the moment somebody next saw him again 3 and 1 half hours braan said he had a touch of the flu and he'd had 5 hours sleep the night before Wayne Smith uh similarly had had uh insufficient sleep about 5 hours before the Collision as the freight train passed the signals telling it to stop the entire enire crew may have been fast asleep you could work at any time of the day so one day you might start at 4:00 in the morning uh the next day you start uh at 2: in the afternoon their hours were so erratic they were continually in a jet lag State because their physiology was never sort of fully adjusted to uh any particular working hours when it comes to staying alert train Engineers face many challenges in including long rides up and down the same stretch of track the tracks going by one after the other it's a very soporific situation to work in and easy to see how somebody no matter how motivated could fall asleep at the time trains were equipped with safety devices that would automatically stop a train if the engine man died or fell asleep the so-called Dead Man's pedal basically the engineer is supposed to keep his foot on the pedal and while he's his foot is on the pedal the train won't stop if that pedal isn't depressed uh then it will after a number of seconds give a warning which is uh quite Audible and if nothing happens then it will stop the train but fo discovers that for many train men disabling the Dead Man's pedal is standard practice one of the excuses that was given by the the engineers is that to go long distances having to keep your foot on that pedal was very uncomfortable and uh so that they would sometimes uh put something on the pedal a lunge box or something heavy enough to keep it depressed so that they could stretch their legs unfortunately uh what was happening this pedal was being depressed for long long periods of time but even even if Edwards and Hudson had fallen asleep at the front of the train and the dead man's pedal was rigged conductor Wayne Smith at the back could still have prevented the disaster almost two months into the Foy inquiry Smith takes the stand doctors had kept him from testifying earlier saying he was too traumatized by the accident now for the first time investigators will hear Smith reconstruct events on board his train in the moments leading up to the disaster I was sitting looking out the back back of the train from my desk when we uh passed mboard 169 that's the uh that's the landmark that I used to initiate a call to the engineer to ask for the display at the Dale Hurst approach signal head end to 413 what indication do you have at the Dale Hurst approach signal 1703 over the front end of the train is supposed to respond letting Smith know that they've seen the signal lights telling them to slow down head of 413 can you hear me over I I probably called him three or four times I uh I didn't get a response on my gray radio there was uh there was something wrong with it what's the indication at signal 1703 over it's a surprising piece of testimony fo already knows the radios were working fine when Smith is asked how fast he thought the train was going before the Collision fo gets another surprise I felt the front end give a light break application on the Caboose uh coming around the curve I felt we were doing a track speed of about 50 mph or less but according to the HotBox detectors the train was traveling almost 16 km an hour over track speed and there was never any application of the brakes I went to my red radio and I tried to get a hold of them on it Jack how's the Dale Hurst approach signal 1703 I was calling him on channel one three or four times and there was no answer so I tried to get a hold of them on different channels but once again Smith's testimony doesn't add up fo has heard from other train men who were monitoring their radios in the area that day no one heard Smith call Smith says he was still trying to contact Hudson when the end of the train raced past signals telling it to slow down Jack as an experienced trainman Smith knows that the next set of lights will likely be a triple red telling the train to stop he was getting no answer and the train wasn't slowing down an emergency Brak cord was in Easy reach but Smith never pulled it Jack are you there with Hudson mysteriously silent Smith says he does nothing but continue to call the front end front end Jack come in why in the circumstances that you've described did you not pull the brake I I felt the engineer had the train under control I felt he in fact was doing what was necessary to control the train at that point I never felt at any point in time that I should pull the emergency break at that time I didn't think that anything was wrong that's the point I make Mr Smith that when there's a problem with the radio you've been trained over the years to observe the signals and it would have been the last thing I would have done he didn't pull the brake he didn't pull the air because he felt that it hadn't reached that point U basically that was his evidence and I had a lot of difficulty with that because uh if if it uh if that point hadn't been reached when was it going to be reached if Smith's contradictory testimony is complete judge fo is now ready to close his case and lay the blame on those responsible for the [Music] disaster the inquiry into one of the deadliest train crashes in Canada is complete 23 people were killed when a freight train crashed headon into a passenger train near Hinton Alberta Chief investigator Renee fo has explored every angle from technical malfunction to human error he's now ready to deliver his report on what went wrong that day in his 205 page report fo Parcels out the blame naming all the key offenders fo writes that the trains engineer Jack Hudson failed to observe and Obey light signals commanding him to stop his train before it entered the single track back if Hudson was unable to do his job Breakman Mark Edwards failed to intervene he also ignored the light signals and didn't break the train before it entered the single track conductor Wayne Smith was guilty too he had failed to follow operating rules and pull the emergency break when he couldn't contact the two men at the front of the train in a statement to police he had even suggested that he thought thought they were sleeping said that my head end was asleep do you recall making that responser yes I do with so many contradictions in his testimony fo rules that the conductor's evidence is unreliable I wasn't sure what I what what had happened and um I went to my back desk I jumped on from the Cupa and uh ran for it seemed like we were just just keep going there was no immediate stopping the Caboose kept sliding instead Foy emphasizes that Smith like Edwards and Hudson was dangerously tired that morning I just wanted to get home actually at the [Music] time but the crew aren't the only ones Foy blames for the accident according to the Foy report Jack Hudson May well have had a stroke or heart attack before the Collision but CN management had known about Hudson's medical record for years he managed to accumulate I think it was 40 or 50 demerits and at 60 you're fired but after he got to that level uh there were some other infractions which weren't recorded foise also calls attention to the rules that were routinely ignored such as rigging the Dead Man's pedal and taking the train on the Fly the conclusion we came to is that there was a lot to be desired on the part of Cen um and that yes there was certainly some laxness uh and some complacency when it came to these areas uh I'll get a measure at Medicine Lodge here I haven't had a chance yet oh that's uh you got pretty well all grein cars eh yeah I think so there is a lesson to be learned here it's that when you have rules you obey the rules and you in Force the rules uh if it becomes too much of a fraternity in of a buddy buddy system it gets lack and problems occur and this tragedy was one of them Foy demands that CN improve its safety equipment recommending that all trains be equipped with reset safety control technology these systems are much more complicated than a dead man's pedal if constant attention is not paid to the train a alarm sound and the train eventually shuts down it's equipment which has proved valuable several times since the disaster there was a study done uh with Cen 10 years after this accident they found something like 90% of the train Engineers saying that they had been woken by the alerting device at least once in response to fo's report CN rail creates one of the most sophisticated fatigue countermeasures program programs in the world train men are no longer on call 7 days a week 24 hours a day napping is no longer FR upon rest houses have been created and improved and locomotive cabs made more [Music] comfortable for the victims of the Hinton disaster of 1986 changes to Canadian railroading come too late I still remember the people that were killed in the accident and good friends I had on the Railroad and that's really it just father me it's now it's uh 20 years nearly and I'm still going strong very lucky I don't equate it to luck no no that too much of a tragedy to think about luck too much there's too much hurt that happened inside of me it took me quite a while to rebuild my my sanity again I got over it fairly quickly and got on with a life there may be lots of other people who weren't as lucky you can be going along in life and then something come along and just kind of destroy your very Foundation or shatter your very foundation and through no fault of your own but life has a habit of doing that but the other thing I can share with him is that you can recover from it there is a tomorrow

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