A broken piston may be to blame for the locomotive fire that set off a chain of events leading to the rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que., an investigation by the railroad company suggests.

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We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...