By Stuart Chirls, Senior Editor, Railway Age Magazine; February 6, 2018
Six former employees, including the chief executive of the defunct Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday in connection with the deadly derailment that killed 47 and destroyed the center of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, in 2013.
The men faced federal charges of breaking Canada’s railway safety and fisheries acts and will have to pay thousands of dollars in fines, including some of the railroad’s top American employees and two of three Canadians who were acquitted of criminal charges in January.
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