Canada gives new Montreal, Maine and Atlantic owner green light

The company that took over partial control of therailway at the centre of last year's disaster in Lac-Mgantic has
been given the green light to operate in Canada.

The Canadian Transportation Agency granted the certificate offitness for railway operation to Central Maine & Quebec Railwaytoday after determining it had adequate liability coverage.

Central Maine & Quebec Railway has so far taken over the U.S. operations of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway.

The sale of MM&A's Canadian operations was pending upon approval of the operational fitness certificate.

A runaway Montreal, Maine and Atlantic train loaded with fuel oilcareened into Lac-Mgantic in the wee hours of lastJuly 6andjumped its tracks, exploding into a massive fireball that destroyedmuch of the downtown core.

Forty-seven people were killed.