Talk:1979 Mississauga train derailment

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An entry from 1979 Mississauga train derailment appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 6 May 2006.

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Please help reorganize the information and check it for accuracy.--Sonjaaa 18:04, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for making this article good!!--Sonjaaa 13:14, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

By the way, what's a "trainman" ?--Sonjaaa 13:14, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting Attempt (#1)

I made a few small changes and split the article into sections under headers (as requested), but I still feel there's a lot of information missing at this point.

EvocativeIntrigue 18:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification needed

I think some clarification is need in the first sentence under teh section "Aftermath":

At 11:53 p.m. at the Mavis Road crossing, the undercarriage separated from the track, causing the train and numerous cars to collide. Some propane cars burst into flames.

• Were the "cars" on the road at the crossing or train cars (carriages)?

EvocativeIntrigue 18:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Cars, I'm fairly certain. I changed it to "automobiles" - I don't like the word, so if anyone's got a better way of making it unambiguous, please go ahead. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 19:02, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Based on reading the referenced article, I'm pretty confident that this refers to train cars, not automobiles. I changed it to "tanker cars filled with propane".

I'll have a think about that and if I come up with something I'll attempt to rework it: automobile covers it for now, though!

EvocativeIntrigue 00:11, 7 May 2006 (UTC)