Quebec: Locomotive engineer Tom Harding was patient, safety-conscious, Lac-Mégantic trial hears

By Alison Brunette, CBC News; November 28, 2017

A former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) train conductor who worked at MMA in the year leading up to the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster told a Sherbrooke court Tuesday that Thomas Harding, the locomotive engineer who operated the ill-fated train on the night of the tragedy, went out of his way to help his colleagues.

Harding, 56, is one of three former MMA employees, along with operations manager Jean Demaître, 53, and railway traffic controller Richard Labrie, 59, who are each charged with 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death in connection with the deadly derailment and explosions.

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