Insights and Stories on Derailment

CP disputes TSB’s conclusions on fatal grain train crash

Apr. 1, 2022 at 1:15 am CDT

The federal Transportation Safety Board’s report into the fatal derailment of a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) grain train in the Rocky Mountains in 2019 calls for changes to train braking systems and maintenance. CP, however, is questioning the TSB’s conclusions about the braking performance of the train involved, saying those […]

Canada to cut speed limits for trains hauling dangerous goods

Feb. 6, 2020 at 4:20 pm CST

By David Ljunggren Rod Nickel

CP mainline through Rockies reopened after crash

Feb. 9, 2019 at 3:32 am CST

By GFM Staff

CP grain train ‘began to move on its own’ before fatal derailment

Feb. 5, 2019 at 7:28 pm CST

By Reuters

CN grain train derails near Calgary

Apr. 10, 2015 at 4:04 pm CDT

By Reuters

CN says harsh winter one reason for spike in 2014 accidents

Mar. 24, 2015 at 7:20 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — An unusually harsh winter is one of the reasons Canadian National Railway (CN) suffered a sharp increase in the number of train accidents in 2014, a top official said Tuesday. Chief operating officer Jim Vena told a committee of federal legislators that deep cold can cause […]

By Reuters

CN building bypass around derailed oil cars

Mar. 9, 2015 at 5:23 pm CDT

Reuters/Staff –– Canadian National Railway’s westbound and eastbound trains are taking wide detours around a derailed train on its main line in northern Ontario while the company builds a bypass for traffic near the crash site. The CN train carrying crude oil that derailed early Saturday near Gogama, Ont., about […]

Insights and Stories on Derailment

CP disputes TSB’s conclusions on fatal grain train crash

Canada to cut speed limits for trains hauling dangerous goods

CP mainline through Rockies reopened after crash

CP grain train ‘began to move on its own’ before fatal derailment

CN grain train derails near Calgary

CN says harsh winter one reason for spike in 2014 accidents

CN building bypass around derailed oil cars

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