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

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

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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...
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