Episode 034: (Rail) The Mississauga Miracle Of 1979 - a podcast by Andy & Michele Sargent

The Mississauga train derailment of 1979, also known as the Mississauga Miracle occurred on Saturday, November 10, 1979, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, when a 106-car CP Rail freight train carrying chemicals and explosives including styrene, toluene, propane, caustic soda, and chlorine from Windsor, Ontario derailed. As a result of the derailment, more than 200,000 people were evacuated in what became the largest peacetime evacuation in North America until Hurricane Katrina. There were no deaths resulting from the incident.

This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals). Michele is an amateur radio operator N8CSX and a self-professed disaster historian. Andy is N8ACJ and the residential railroad specialist.

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