Tangled cars and billowing smoke: Remembering Hinton rail disaster 40 years later
- Posted on January 4, 2026
- By The Toronto Star
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Tangled cars and billowing smoke: Remembering Hinton rail disaster 40 years later

HINTON, Alta. - Colin Hanington followed a plume of smoke to reach one of the deadliest railway crashes in Canadian history, and almost 40 years later remembers the silence when