The Mississauga Train Derailment (1979)

It was called "The Mississauga Miracle" - a train derailment involving 26 cars of toxic and flammable materials, just a few miles from a major Canadian city center. Faced with the prospect of a cloud of killer phosgene gas being released, authorities had no choice but to order the mass evacuation of an entire city....
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[@joeheid4757]

There aren't enough awards to give to the guy that saved so many lives.

[@jordanscherr6699]

Him and the first responders. They figured out the severity of the situation very quickly, and acted accordingly. That, and preventing the involved tanker from being consumed. That too is quite remarkable, showing how people who know what they're doing make all the difference in the world.

[@glennvogt1194]

Amen.

[@alinapopescu872]

Agreed!

[@foo219]

I was just about to say that. I hope there's a massive statue to him.

[@garfieldsmith332]

Agree. And also to all those involved who worked to prevent a greater tradgedy.

[@jsdb321]

Fantastic account of a very interesting story. One minor correction, however. You mentioned that the train began across the border in Windsor crossing over to Sarnia. Windsor is actually in Ontario, Canada, across from the City of Detroit. The US city across the river from sarnia is Port Huron. A small error and one that certainly does not take away from your very well done story. Kudos!

[@TBone-bz9mp]

Yeah, that threw me as well, though there are Windsors in the US (hello Harry), I can’t see on near Canada. Maybe the service started from Windsor, but then crossed into Michigan, went north and crossed back at Sarnia?

[@themyceliumnetwork]

@@TBone-bz9mp it was in Sarnia, crossed the US border to get to Windsor for the shortest route.

[@rjb5847]

A possible reason for the confusion, the CP train originated in Windsor. The traffic from Sarnia was brought to Chatham by another rail company for CP to pick up.

[@erbewayne6868]

Detroit to port Huron on then grand trunk on a fast track to pick up chemicals from chemical valley south of Sarnia

[@diffrntlytwistd7442]

Driving, it's 50 kms shorter to take the USA route, and it's all I-94. Hammer Down🚅🚂💨💨 many tunnels for trains go from Windsor to Detroit, they probably cruise right thru the border.

[@cowboycoven]

Awesome to see someone finally talk about this! My parents have always told me stories about this and how terrifying it was - according to my mom, my grandfather very stubbornly refused to evacuate, even when the police came knocking. It really is a miracle that a major disaster was avoided!

[@colesmith7509]

I will never understand why some people refuse to evacuate during dangerous situations. These situations very often end in the deaths of everyone who didn’t evacuate. People who refused to evacuate from the Mt. St. Helens area were all killed, for example. Not evacuating is the most brain dead stubbornness

[@barrydysert2974]

@@colesmith7509 Harry Truman's refusal to leave Spirit Lake used to puzzle me as well, but i was forty years younger then. For some, the older you get and the longer you live in one place, the stronger your attachment to that place becomes. Some would rather die with it rather than live without it !:-)

[@LadyWhinesalot]

In 2001 a rail car carrying anhydrous ammonia derailed, prompting the evacuation of parts of N. Red Deer in Alberta. Unfortunately, they allowed us back too soon and I suffered some burns to my throat but luckily my 6 yr grandson was away for a few days. It could have been so much worse. BTW, there is one other thing you should know about Canada...REAL Poutine!

[@chasjetty8729]

Also camping with Steve. He’s every but as Canadian as poutine.

[@Tiberiansam]

If you want real poutine, you have to come to Québec, its birthplace. 😁Also, the word poutine is a french term here meaning a mess.

[@LoPhatKao]

ironically happened years after they moved the route away from downtown used to hop freights at Alpha and ride them to Oriole Park/Upper Fairview area 🤔if you have daughter named Lori, i went to school with her

[@LadyWhinesalot]

@@LoPhatKao sorry, no, I don't

[@blackcoffy83]

I live in Mississauga, and you did a good job telling this story. I learned about the explosion in school. Sad update, but Hazel Macallion passed on January 29th at 101 years old.

[@missykeatings9114]

Honestly, I don't think there's anything sad about dying at 101 years old. Thats an amazing age to live to.

[@blackcoffy83]

@@missykeatings9114 that's true! She lived a full life and got to accomplish her dreams ❤️

[@ATK10155]

101 years old is impeccable here in the states. Glad she was able to live out her years.

[@wendyh2708]

I remember this accident like it was yesterday. We were in the Barrie area but we had friends in Mississauga. Hazel was an absolute star thru this. RIP Hurricane Hazel.

[@torontocitizen6802]

I remember this event. It forced a lot of companies to reconsider their disaster response processes. You might want to do a video on the Lac Megantic disaster.

[@sandman75sandman97]

he did ... before this one

[@rvanderjagt5944]

There's an old Canadian show called "Disasters of the Century" that's full of Canadian incidents. I'm from the US and learned a lot. BTW, love the channel!

[@alexanderewasiuk8342]

I watched it as a kid, great show

[@AidenTheAviator]

My Mother was only 12 at the time and she lived about about 10-15 minutes away from where the train derailed. She heard and felt the explosion and herself along with my grandmother, aunt and uncle had to evacuate and went to stay with family in Burlington.

[@howardg7162]

I was 19 lived on the border on Bloor st

[@samanthagomez7074]

Wow really

[@maxhill7065]

I remember the story my dad told me about the plastic compounding company he worked at, they received a mislabeled railcar of product, and while mixing that with another precursor they accidentally made mustard gas, thankfully very few people are needed in the production facility and they were in an elevated position and were alerted to the gas buildup thanks to the monitoring system they had

[@disaster988]

This was a great video! My father has told me about this accident a few times. He still remembers hearing the explosions. He'd never heard a noise so loud before or since.

[@rjb5847]

I enjoyed this video. I am a retired CPR Conductor & worked the line where this took place. At that time I was a brakeman (when the railways still had them) and I ended up on the crew of one of the "big hooks" (wreck train including 250 ton crane). After the wreck when things got more or less back to normal, the company set out to prove that the crew (Krupa specifically) were responsible for the wreck because they did not see the smoke & flames from the hotbox that started the wreck. The company ran tests on eastbound trains attaching a light to the identical axle location on the right side of the train. Tests were inconclusive & no other efforts were made to blame the crew. Every member of every crew that met this train on both the Galt & Windsor Subdivisions as well as a host of other employees that the train passed, were required to attend the federal inquiry in 1980. The entire way that dangerous goods are handled in transportation as well as specifically on North American railways, changed forever. A host of complex marshalling rules & speed restriction zones still apply to this day.

[@railfandepotproductions]

So was the train led by go transit f40ph units leased by GO transit? If so, what were the road numbers on these locomotives

[@Iconoplastt]

So proud of my CAD fellows who helped contain this.. Fun Fact, Mississauga's Mayer, Hazel was elected in 2078 and served as Mayor until 2014 and is now 101 years old!! Great woman!

[@anareel4562]

Mmm, sweet sweet time travel

[@beer1for2break3fast4]

So she was 157 when she time travelled back?

[@anareel4562]

@@beer1for2break3fast4 allegedly

[@petegrusky2715]

That witch ? Money laundering politician , mate , like everything that happens in Toronto area .

[@Iconoplastt]

@@petegrusky2715 Ya, well I'm not up on what little befell her, but she did grow the city via policy quite well.... so criminals can be good at their jobs too...

[@bobdevreeze4741]

I was living at the corner of Dundas and Mavis and found out there was a problem when the window blew in on my bed. I thought Toronto had been nuked. The sky was blood red from horizon to horizon. We were one of the first evacuated and the last to get back. My work was also shut down , so I left the city for a week. My family lived 100 miles north and that was a great place to go

[@jeremyowen1]

I live an hour and a half from Missisauga and have for almost my entire life. I've never heard about this accident. If this is the first accident you covered located in Canada, then I'd love an episode on the Halifax Explosion that occurred in 1917. That's probably the worst more recent disaster with good documentation to strike Canada that wasn't a pandemic/epidemic.

[@chatteyj]

The Halifax disaster is horrific but its relatively well known and been done on other channels, Ravens eye usually focuses on disasters very few have heard of.

[@samanthagomez7074]

Wow really

[@nlwilson4892]

I think Fascinating Horror did a video on that.

[@zebedee182]

Great video once again! Such a nice change to hear about a disaster where there was no loss of life, just a sprained ankle. When you mentioned the liquid chlorine tanker, I didn’t have much hope I must admit. Massive gratitude for Larry Krupa, what a legend. Much love from UK 🇬🇧

[@dellahicks7231]

I am Canadian and have to admit, when I think of railway disasters in our country, Lac-Mégantic is the first that comes to mind, possibly because it is so recent in terms of things. Thank You for covering the Mississauga derailment, I was 13 when this took place, living here on the prairies, though I remember it being on the paper here. PS. We don't call it "Ice hockey" in Canada, just hockey, and yes Gretzky is a son of 🇨🇦. And you need to try Nanaimo bars! 😉

[@anareel4562]

Hello from Ontario, I second the recommendation for nanimo bars but also suggest butter tarts :)

[@DaleDix]

There's the via v freight train.

[@dellahicks7231]

@@anareel4562 Just no raisins or as my late cousin liked them, with currants, I like mine with neither!

[@anareel4562]

@@dellahicks7231 I actually like the raisin ones lol, their all good in their own way. Ever gone to the butter tart festival in Midland?

[@garfieldsmith332]

@@anareel4562 Butter tarts first.

[@jamestaylor6041]

Not all hero's wear a cape but they do bare the mark of selfless duty to those around them , well done Sir , now your name will be remembered through your deeds . A great story , thank you for telling us all of an incident we didn't know about .

[@bellajames1261]

I was wondering if you were going to do this disaster. I was living in Mississauga when this disaster happened. We could see the flames from our home. It was the most organised evacuation ever. We were reimbursed expenses afterwards. It was truly a miracle. It was on the national news and they couldnt pronounce Mississauga LOL

[@op0614]

Awesome! Thanks for doing this I live in Mississauga many who live here don't even know about this. Also It's pronounced Miss -sis-saw-ga other than that great job. Still today it is considered as one of the most successful mass evacuations ever in North America.

[@reachandler3655]

For such an horrendous accident to have so little casualties is almost inconceivable, definitely a miracle. Thankyou for another superb history lesson.

[@kyleashdown518]

One of the Canadian disasters that’s a little lesser known to the rest of the world, yet incredibly fascinating disaster was the Frank Slide of 1903. Massive rock slide that buried a mining town in the Alberta Rockies. Driving through the area is truly a sight to behold as none of the rocks have been moved. Also not far away from that is the site of the Hillcrest coal mine explosion - one of the deadliest mining disasters in North America.

[@sirawesomenessi1796]

I can imagine how eerie that must look. I’ve driven past the Hope Slide a few times and it’s just the oddest thing to see the side of the mountain that came down in the slide. I can imagine the sheer scale of a whole mining town getting buried.

[@kyleashdown518]

@@sirawesomenessi1796 I drive through the Crowsnest Pass at least once a year and I still can’t get over the massive amount of rock that fell down the slide path. Also kind of eerie to think about how most of the victims are still buried under the rock

[@CranialExtractor]

My dad was a special constable at the time and helped evacuate people. Thanks for covering this!

[@smontone]

Incredible story! I had never heard of it either. Amazing no one died, what a true act of heroism running towards the fire and not away.

[@AngryCanine]

There is another notable train disaster here in Canada that would be an interesting one to cover, the The Lac-Mégantic derailment disaster in Quebec that happened 9 years ago, but unlike this one, there were casualties, and a whole lot of fire

[@brittanybecker170]

The best worst case scenario! I'd never heard of this until today. Thanks for the story!

[@jimrudolph1582]

I lived in Burlington on the boarder of Oakville and I remember being woke by the explosions and what seemed like the whole neighbourhood outside in their housecoats and pj’s watching the fireballs then the evacuation and people showing up at their relatives and friends houses! Everyone offered to house families. A close friend who lived on those tracks in clarksob was woke by the noise from the faulty wheel and witnessed the sparks etc and of course was evacuated for the duration!! Luckily they had family north of Oakville to stay with. A memory I had not been conscious of until I saw this. Thank you. Also there are better beer choices than you adhere to in my opinion. Try Canada again, I think you’ll enjoy it. Look me up I’d love to host you and yours.

[@avidvideo]

Another story from Canada you may want to consider covering is the Sunrise Propane explosion in Toronto in 2008. There's good video of it on KZbin.

[@carolynelkins1483]

I was a kid when this happened. Heard the blast and the sky was orange. Next day we we’re ordered to evacuate. We went to stay with our cousins and for us kids was a great time especially out of school for a week. Only a few years later found out how dangerous this was and even now so many years later learning more about it. Kind of surreal. Thank you for a great account of a major childhood memory!

[@MightyMezzo]

My grandfather, a track supervisor for the Pennsylvania Railroad, had to clear up after a derailment caused by a hot box during WWII. Over 80 people died in that. God bless that brakeman for getting those tank cars uncoupled.

[@Zions_Awesome_YouTube_Show6381]

Was it the 1943 Congressional Limited train wreck

[@MightyMezzo]

@@Zions_Awesome_KZbin_Show6381 Yes! My mother and my uncle tell me Grandfather was away from home for two days.

[@pinlight97]

I remember this! I lived on the other side of Toronto as a kid. Worth noting: the west side of Toronto is transportation central with a big train-to-truck hub. Your Canuck knowledge-both geographical and general-is, um, I’m Canadian and polite so I’ll stick with “dubious”. This said, great job retelling this! I was too little to realise that one guy probably saved a chunk of my family as I did have (still do) relatives that live in Mississauga. Also, props on the street pronunciations-you’ve got Google Maps Girl beat on that!

[@Liasisws]

I remember coming home (In Brampton just a few kilometres North of Mississauga) with my family that night and exclaiming to look at the sky it’s so bright, and my dad saying that it was just the sunset, to which we remarked in unison “at midnight?” Then we entered the house and went to bed.

[@debbieellett9093]

Very, very much needed miracle story!. Thanks, you made my day!

[@anareel4562]

As someone who lives in Toronto, first off, amazing, factual story telling. Second, I've never heard Mississauga pronounced so strangely but I kinda like it. (Most people, here at least, pronounce the last part as "saga" leaving the u silent)

[@KimberlyCrawley]

"Miss-iss-ow!-ga" sounds like nails against chalkboard. It's Miss-iss-ah-ga.

[@elGringo69]

@@KimberlyCrawley This is the way

[@aquachonk]

Thanks for posting an inspirational one, much needed in these times.

[@gmamah9559]

Good story to renew my faith in humanity. There are still humans like this in this crazy world. Peace!

[@teaburg]

Thanks for covering this. The evacuation extensions were nerve wrecking. The last one was 1/4 of a mile from my home. It was a long and scary night. And all those who worked to keep everyone safe did a marvelous job. Wasn't aware that Larry Kruper (also wasn't aware of his name until now) was put into the North American Railway Hall of Fame...well deserved!

[@polarbear1754]

Looks like you have many, many Canadian followers, including myself. I lived 2 hours North of Mississauga at the time and followed this story intensely as it unfolded. The bravery of all involved to avert greater disaster was amazing. And Hazel McCallion never left her city. She remained to receive reports on the progress and eventually tour the site. She was a feisty mayor and is still active at age 101 as Special Adviser on Municipal Affairs of Ontario. Thanks for covering this.

[@alinapopescu872]

Goodness, what a story! Thank you for telling it to us and many thanks to the person(s) who suggested it in the comments!

[@StephanieElizabethMann]

Thank you for an uplifting recount of bravery and people taking action for the benefit of the citizens.

[@kerrbear1980]

Thank u for this. As a torontonian, i had heard bout it, saw some articles, but little exists otherwise. Im thrilled to see this. Thank u again

[@HersheyBARZ_]

I've been to Toronto many times and there are references in some pubs about it. I never gave it a second thought, nice to make the connection. I'm going to visit Mississauga next time I'm in the area. Kudos to the Canadian people! What an amazing story!

[@JC-vn4lr]

Great video! I lived in Mississauga when the derailment occurred. We weren’t evacuated until two nights later. We had tickets for a show in Toronto and found out after the show , listening to CBC radio in the car, that we would not be allowed back in! We pleaded at the police checkpoint that we needed to get some clothes etc so they let us go back for a few minutes. We did not grab proper items in the panic. We drove to a hotel in Hamilton. I still remember when my mom told the staff at the front desk that we were coming from Mississauga. Hotel staff said “oh, you’re refugees” to which my mom retorted “no, we’re evacuees! There’s a difference!” But honestly we weren’t sure at that point if we’d have a city or home to go back to.

[@jmm2000]

Can you do the rescue of the miners in Chile called "The 33" and the rescue of the junior soccer team in Thailand? Both were miracles in everyone surviving.

[@paulacblades001]

This sure stirs up some ghosts for me, my family lived only two blocks from the derailment site. I remember everyone standing on the street watching the fire after the first explosion… It was the strangest sight, sky was completely lit up… Evacuations began in the early morning, we amongst the first evacuated… We stayed at someone home in Burlington Ontario, many people in the surrounding communities opened their homes to families… ❤️🙏🏻

[@changeshifter4852]

Nicely done and appreciated. I remember this in the news. Tornados are not very common here. You may be interested in Canada's only cat 5 tornado that ripped through Elie, Manitoba a few years back. My son and I went out there and helped pick up personal belongings/household items strewn through the fields and ditches from those who lost homes/items. The tornado's path was clearly evident, and the town's residents & farmers clearly devastated. You might also like reading about the blizzard of 1966 here in Winnipeg. My Dad remembers tunneling through the screen part of their storm door by putting the snow in tubs in the house and digging around once outside till he found the shovel and could clear a path to the street. Once outside he could shovel around the door and get the storm door to finally open. There's a really good picture of a man standing in his snow walled, dug out path that's pretty wild. Cheers

[@stevenjohn1646]

I’ve now binged through all of your content and I hope you continue to produce the educative and informative material that you’ve been providing. Thank you very much for your service and I hope that somehow you are encouraged to continue to do so.

[@maryscott9430]

Wow. Larry Krupa is an absolute hero! Way to go mayor for evacuating everyone and the first responders did an incredible job knocking out the fire.

[@fitchlekvoda8721]

To get an understanding of just how severe this could have been, one of the buildings you see silhouetted against the fire was the Mississauga branch of the Ontario Humane Society, an animal shelter. At the time of the fire, someone I know worked at one of the Toronto branches, the one closest to that one, to which they took the animals evacuated from the Mississauga shelter. None of the animals from that shelter survived. All of them died from chlorine gas exposure shortly after arrival.

[@Opiuth]

I wish you and your channel best of development. Narration is spot on, according to the best of “British” standards. The care for the details along with cool intellect as empathy towards the story makes it a truly interesting listening. This along with your way of finding the “hidden/forgotten” accidents makes it a pleasant content to listen to a cup of coffee. Just an advice, if you could add a short text of imperial/metric system info. For the comfort of the viewer. I am looking forward to your channels content and once again wish you best of stubbornness and patience into your development. 👍

[@nicholasrusson8978]

Thanks for posting this. I was involved in the evacuation and (probably because I was in my army reserve uniform at the time) I was put in charge of security for the evacuation centre established in the gymnasium at Streetsville High School for several days. I dug up what I'd written about the event a few months later and it's a bit surprising how my memories of the event now don't exactly match up with what I wrote in early 1980 ... not so much the major outline of events, but the details and in a few cases, the sequence of events. It reminds me that "eyewitness" testimony isn't always the most dependable source of factual information on any particular event.

[@TheHighlander5555]

@The Raven's Eye Thanks for covering this story. I lived through it (I was 7 years old) and although we were not close to the accident, we gave lodging to a Family that was living in the evacuation zone. This was almost a horrific tragedy that was prevented by some incredible heroism and hard work by emergency services and local government. It brought back good and bad memories so thanks again.

[@TrickiVicBB71]

Canadian myself and never heard of this disaster. KZbin recommended me this today. Great video Raven

[@Scraggledust]

❤What a tragic incident but amazing selflessness. Ty for sharing, as I know I do tend to forget the people and the chemicals rolling non-stop on the railroads. Have to be better about that instead of getting flustered when I’m stuck waiting on mile long or more, freighters to pass

[@williamcote4208]

If you want 2 other incidents to cover, there’s the Halifax explosion, which is the big pre-nuclear explosion, and the 2013 Lac Megantic derailment

[@jamesstuart3346]

I took the CP Rail "Dayliner" RDC to work the next week. As we wobbled through Agincourt yard the ruptured and burned out tank cars were stacked in gondolas on either side. Creepy

[@Play_fare]

I lived in Aldershot (Burlington), west of Mississauga. The actual derailment was in the former village of Streetsville. I was in middle school when this occurred and we were warned to be prepared to evacuate in case a chlorine cloud blew west. It was the very first time the old WWII era air ride siren on the top of the 1914 built part of my school was activated. Scared me almost to death when it sounded! Fortunately we didn’t have to evacuate, as the emergency crews did a superlative job getting the fire under control. What is ironic, is that it wasn’t too long after this incident that a tanker truck, travelling on the QEW Burlington Skyway bridge carrying chlorine gas, was involved in an accident. Fortunately, no evacuation was necessary but people were still on edge from the previous incident.

[@benisaten]

Thanks for this. Cheers from Niagara 🇨🇦✌️ Maybe cover the Lac Mégantic train disaster, that was brutal. Btw, Sarnia and Windsor are both in Canada, different border cities into Michigan State, but close enough.

[@stuartf2946]

Well that certainly got my attention Mr Raven, brilliantly put together as usual.

[@JerryAtricMr]

My Favorite Channel...Thank you!!!

[@madgary5827]

I love and appreciate this channel. Thank you and like 🙂

[@michelle2day]

And let me add thank you for putting together that story and all the photos just amazing

[@deltalimabravo6727]

I adore this story, Thank you

[@mikemoran4340]

Awesome show man! The pics, narration, editing & music... better than TV

[@bluegreenglue6565]

Thank you for sharing this incredible story with us. It is refreshing to learn of an event like this that didn't result in loss of life.

[@corrinaclark2910]

Awesome video!!

[@lololandify]

Yay, keep it coming!!

[@toddmichaeljohnson7139]

I’m new to your channel and I love it! 🇨🇦

[@davesworkshop2714]

Great video with a good ending, thanks!

[@unselling1822]

Miss,Hazel Mccallion the mayor of Mississauga passed away today. She will be missed dearly.

[@stuartmiller7419]

Great video, as ever. 👍

[@robertjonsson797]

As usual a very iintresting and informative video, thank you!

[@Designsbyg]

I remember this well. I was in the hospital getting some stitches for a cut and I heard the nurses saying to get ready for casualties (as we were leaving). When I got outside, I could see the column of smoke rising from the scene. I was with a friend and we then drove to the scene to get a better look. Lots of traffic made movement hard but as we got closer, there was an enormous explosion which lit up the whole sky. we watched a huge burning mushroom cloud rise from the scene. We could not get too close as police already had things closed off. We parked near the scene and watched with other people. Another large explosion soon rocked the area this time shattering windows. I was about 18 at the time.

[@andysix246]

A close call, thank you for all the wonderful content you bring to your fans. That brake guy, we'd all like to think we'd do similar, his bravery is on a whole other level 👏

[@Caroline-rv8wy]

I was 10 months old and living in Mississauga when this happened. We were about 12km outside the danger zone so didn't have to evacuate fortunately. I went to Hazel McCallion Middle School - she's a legend in Mississauga. I haven't lived there for 30 years but was happy to discover she's still around at age 101!

[@barbiek3987]

I was flying out of Toronto that evening. Flew right over it. A sight to behold! You knew something serious was happening but we wouldn't find out til later.

[@sundevilification]

great story, thanks!

[@davidmanley9437]

This is an incredible story, and were very fortunate that it wasn't much worse .Thank you for sharing. I lived in the northeast U.S. and never heard of this.

[@jesusbeloved3953]

Me too! Two hours or so from the falls!

[@elizabethsamson5591]

I was working in Mississauga as a Mother's helper in 1979. i was evacuated, along with nearly 250,000 other residents in a wide sweep of the area where it was deemed that a serious threat from the HUGE smoke/flame cloud that rose into the night sky after the first explosions. It was quite frightening, we felt/ heard the explosion.....i spent some nights sleeping on the sofa at my bosses downtown apartment. The police were really excellent, they did door to door calls to evacutate residents quickly and set up a caudon around Mississauga. I know of someone who wanted to collect some medication from their house whilst in evacutation and the police were really keen, not to let him in, but did so under supervision, to collect it. I have been looking for a yellow t-shirt since 1979- a commemoration of the disaster, but cannot find one...I still have some of the original news paper articles of 1979.

[@hubertmantz1516]

A Truly amazing story!👍🏽

[@rjb5847]

I would like to note in addition to my other note, that are a few minor errors in the video. First, the train did not originate in Sarnia. The block of dangerous cares from Sarnia were brought to Chatham Ontario on the CP Windsor line by the C & O railroad, to be later picked up by a CP crew. CP would either run a crew out of Windsor enroute to London with a small train that would pick up the "gas" at Chatham, or sometimes run a short turn from London to Chatham & return. That train would then operate east of London with a new crew. The 54 schedule was used most times because it's times were roughly the same as the usual arrival from the west end. Second, the Conductor Ted Nichol was on the tail end of the train in the caboose. For anyone wondering Krupa & his father-in-law Keith Pruss were in a leased GO transit locomotive which was slightly different than usual freight engines. That fact was pondered at the inquiry with suggestions that the crew's ability to inspect the train while running, was impeded by the different cab configuration.....

[@pauloalvesdesouza7911]

Another excellent video, and this one's got a bonus happy ending. There are a number of cases that involve trains that would do great videos, but alas few with a happy ending.

[@revenniaga6249]

Great story, even better production. The picture of the trucks or in Europe called boogies which hold the wheels were a type called Archbar Trucks. Archbar trucks were banned in interchange service in 1939 and by 1960 had disappeared from railroad/railroad service altogether

[@plunder1956]

It's the people who run towards terrible danger to save other people who amaze me. They are very special indeed.

[@ExperimentIV]

wow, i’ve never heard of this and i don’t live that far from mississauga (though it’s pretty before my time). the end part is pronounced more like the word “saga” though. edit: i asked my dad about this and not only does he remember it, his aunt and uncle were also two of the evacuees, who stayed with my dad and his family until they could go back home. thanks for the video, would’ve never known any of this without it!

[@iceman256]

I lived 1 block from the train derailment. I was sitting in the living room, when all of a sudden the living room turned bright orange and shook the house like a 7.0 earthquake..it scared the friggin crap out of me. I went up the street by the tracks one block away and all of a sudden you can hear rumbling and all of a sudden a propane tank went off...I ran down the street holding the back of my head, felt like it was on fire. It was below freezing and garbage bags melted in the backyard facing the fire. We got evacuated about 2 hours later. It was the scariest fire I ever experienced 😬

[@Hartford1992]

I know you covered the Tri-State Tornado in a previous video, but I'd love to see one on the El Reno, OK tornado of 2013. Largest tornado in history. As a storm chaser who survived that dreadful day, I'd love to see a video from you on it.

[@williamheayn3760]

I live in the neighbouring city of Brampton, yet I've never heard of this event. I know of bridge collapses in Florida and Australia, tragedies in Bhopal and the Piave Valley, yet not this derailment 30 minutes from my front door.

[@tabbitee]

Mr Krupa must've been channeling the spirit of Patrick Vincent Coleman, risking his life like that. Or then again, maybe people are just heroic sometimes idk. Nice to hear about a disaster which actually turned out okay, all in all.

[@hokeypokeyahandicapablebul4207]

Would love to tell you what it was like to live through this, lived approx 4 blocks away. Pieces of tankers falling through the sky. Definitely a moment never forget.

[@briancisco1176]

Beautiful story!

[@Nix936]

I was 16 years old living in Mississauga, I remember this so well, but I’ve always heard it called the Mississauga disaster. I lived 6 miles away and watched the flames from my bedroom window the first night.

[@Lady_boom_bitch]

Oh I remember this my parents told me about and it happened only 2 hours away very scary also thank you for doing this video ❤️

[@grahamnalepa4622]

I think the brakeman probably single handedly saved thousands of people from death and severe injury with his actions? I agree with the narrator that most people probably wouldn't have had the courage to do that. I hope he lived a long happy life after that, because there are most definitely a lot of people who he saved that did. 🤙

[@VoidHalo]

There was a train derailment in Kitchener/Waterloo just 2 or 3 days ago. But it looked pretty minor and there were no injuries.

[@MrChronicpayne]

I'm from Mississauga originally and I have never heard of this either. Wild.

[@htos1av]

Wow, neat story. Haven't heard of this one.

[@suzylarry1]

I lived 80 Miles north of this event. I was called in as an emergency evacuation tenant with a volunteer organization . I actually worked this fire evacuation for 4 days to relocate victims . I have documents that we received do to this crash. The Mayor Mccallion is still with us in 2022.

[@madzod0076]

Nice to see a happy ending on this channel

[@RadioactiveSherbet]

A train derailment involving leaking chemicals & exploding flammable tank cars with only property damage (and one sprained ankle) to show for it is *indeed* a miracle.

[@Blaklege63]

That was an Excellent story with a happy ending.