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Canadian Town Derailed Diesel Loco and Took it Down Road to Provide Emergency Power

Posted: 26 Feb 2021, 17:09
by John Ashworth
That Time a Canadian Town Derailed a Diesel Train and Drove It Down the Street to Provide Emergency Power
After an especially bad ice storm in 1998, the mayor of Boucherville, Quebec, had a clever idea to borrow a diesel-electric locomotive and use it as a super-sized emergency generator...