Hinton

And then it's going to extend to the Saskatchewan border by tomorrow.

Hinton, Nordegg, Edson, Rocky Mountain House and more could be looking at about 10 to 25 centimeters of snow.

Well, the amount is uncertain for other regions.

And it should taper off on Sunday.

Few scattered showers and windy tonight with a low plus two.

Rain or wet snow and very windy tomorrow with a high of plus one.

And for Edson and Hinton, heavy snow at times tonight with a low of zero.

Heavy snow at times tomorrow and windy.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

But I do want to give you just a little bit of perspective about me and where I'm coming from, because I grew up in Hinton, Alberta.

And Hinton is, uh, near Jasper National Park in the foothills of the Rockies, and it is a resource town.

There's mining around it, but the town itself is anchored by a large pulp and paper mill, which is quite odiferous, I might add.

And tourists would often say, "Oh my God, how do you people stand that smell?" And Hintonites would say, "It's the smell of money." I mean, that pulp mill has employed tens of thousands of people over the years, including a lot of members of my own family, and I know a ton of people that work in the resource industry.

So as a teenager, for example, I dated a teenage coal miner from Grande Cache who was a good-looking blonde guy who had always had a little bit of coal dust in his mustache and in his eyelashes, sort of made him look like he was wearing mascara.

Can't be healthy, right? Um, I also dated an oil rigger for a little while.

The text line is open, 590590.

Jimmy in Hinton, Alberta.

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Hello, James.

And in Canada, you've got roads that, yeah, they go on forever.

So we're up in this place called Hinton, which is sort of inland Alberta, if you know, up by Jasper, if you know Canada at all.

So that's pretty much in the middle of nowhere.

We knew we were in the middle of nowhere.

Well, I don't know about you, but when you come across a sign in a country that goes Alaska, you know you're pretty remote, you know? Now, it did say Alaska 3,700 kilometres away, but I was still going, okay, let's not, I don't think we're going that way, you know? And then the other one goes Seattle, that way, and you go, whoa, we're talking like crazy, like you've got to get the right road here.

So anyway, so here's the story.

So we're in Hinton.

We're going to Whistler.

She was talking about the Jasper wildfire.

She was like on her way out to Hinton and people were like, oh, look at these fake tears, whatever.

And I went to bat and I was like, listen, give me a break.

You know, and I was kind of like, I've known her for a long time.

Well, welcome to this deep dive.

Today, we are unraveling one of the most chilling mysteries in transportation history, which is the 1986 Hinton train collision in the Canadian Rockies.

Yeah, this one really stays with you.

It does.

He basically wrote that when you have rules, you must obey them and management must enforce them because of the culture devolves into a buddy buddy system where looking the other way is rewarded.

Tragedy is just a matter of time.

Fortunately, though, the horrific cost of the Hinton disaster did force the industry to rip up its old playbooks.

Yeah, the easily rigged Dead Man's Pedal was completely abolished, right?