If only Wayne Smith had pulled the air in 1986, we would have cabooses today.
Unfortunately the aftermath of the Hinton accident resulted in three things: the Foisy rules, which railroaders and railroads have detested since, the implementation on the Alerter-RSC, and the removal of cabooses and head-end brakemen since they were proven to be ineffective to the safe conduct of a train.
As far as my own two cents are concerned, the Wikipedia article, Hugh Halliday's account in Wreck! Canada's Worst Railway Accidents, and the the Discovery Channel show it spawned, are all biased and uninformed. The Foisy Report itself is very interesting and thorough...it is actually available for sign-out (along with 30 volumes of testimony) from the Rutherford Library at the U of A.
It was a sad incident that changed the railway industry in Canada...and the aim of the modern railway is to put it back to exactly what it was before this terrible disaster.
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Unfortunately the aftermath of the Hinton accident resulted in three things: the Foisy rules, which railroaders and railroads have detested since, the implementation on the Alerter-RSC, and the removal of cabooses and head-end brakemen since they were proven to be ineffective to the safe conduct of a train.
As far as my own two cents are concerned, the Wikipedia article, Hugh Halliday's account in Wreck! Canada's Worst Railway Accidents, and the the Discovery Channel show it spawned, are all biased and uninformed. The Foisy Report itself is very interesting and thorough...it is actually available for sign-out (along with 30 volumes of testimony) from the Rutherford Library at the U of A.
It was a sad incident that changed the railway industry in Canada...and the aim of the modern railway is to put it back to exactly what it was before this terrible disaster.