Opinion by Art Miller, Railway Age Magazine; January 26, 2018
After nearly three months of emotional courtroom proceedings and nine days of jury deliberations, three former employees of Ed Burkhart’s now-defunct Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway were found not guilty of all charges arising from the 2013 Lac-Mégantic oil train disaster.
On Jan. 19, the blindfolded lady holding the scales of justice determined the immediate futures of locomotive engineer Thomas Harding, 56; rail traffic controller Richard Labrie, 59; and Jean Demaitre, 53, MM&A’s operations manager.
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