CN Rail Line Re-Opened
Sunday, February 9, 2014 @ 4:00 PM
Prince George, BC – The CN rail line between Prince George and Prince Rupert has been re-opened after a collision and derailment that occurred yesterday afternoon.
CN's Public Affairs Regional Manager, Emily Hamer, could not provide a specific time, but said the line was cleared earlier this afternoon and rail traffic is once again moving.
At approximately one o'clock yesterday afternoon, one train struck the back end of another, resulting in the derailment of a locomotive and eight intermodal cars just west of Vanderhoof. Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident. Both trains were travelling west at the time.
Hamer says CN officials have launched an investigation into the collision.
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Maybe BC or Fed Government should also launch an inverstigation into CN’s operations and procedures.
I believe CN will only cover up things to protect their tailfeathers…
Maybe CN should launch an investigation against both gov’s as well,,,Everyone has a closet full of skeletons.
We had an investigation against the BC Liberals and CN, and the sale of BC Rail, but they shut it down. So one could say that investigations don’t work.
It will be interesting to see how this accident happened,. I would bet that trains that stretch from one and a half to two miles in length would have a lot to do with it.
Perhaps they lost their communications,. or their air brakes. Who knows. One thing is certain once these trains get going it takes over a mile to stop them.
Communication is the likely problem, these trains are watched on a board in Edmonton Alberta, and they should have been able to determine there was a problem.
I agree,,, the RTC should have detected this.
And let me guess.. No environmental impact .. Their usual lie is missing from their statement .
“these trains are watched on a board in Edmonton Alberta”
There is the problem right there, the boards are located in Edmonton.
The best people have gone to work in the oil and gas fields which has left the board watchers to be replaced with MacD shift managers …..
They need to move the boards to Hazelton. No MacDs there …… ;-)
Lol, look at all the expert opinions here.
Would provide jobs for the Hazelton region.
If you dont know how the railway run why guess, it just makes you look silly with made up comments like “the RTC should have detected this”.He does not know the train is not going to stop at the stop signal.
There are a number of things that could have happened here. More than likely crew error following another train in the same block but I doubt we’ll find out.
But olduc, unless there was a failure in the signal system (CTC) wouldn’t there be bells and whistles going off at Rail Traffic Control once the train enters the block ? Why was the first train stopped ? For a meet at the siding ? Some funny guy throw a flag up ? Why wasn’t the second train aware of a train in the same block was stopped ahead ? Maybe they did know.
Couldn’t get a 150 cars on frosty rails stopped in time ? Ignored a couple signals ?
This is 250 bud. everyone on here is an expert at everything, anonymously. See, I don’t have a clue, but it was fun throwing out questions of why.
Not sure what RTC stands for , but aware of CTC.
The first train was stopped on the main between switches waiting for a east bound. The second train did not stop at the red stop signal behind the first train, yes the RTC (rail traffic controller) would get a alarm bell in Edmonton,when the second trian passed the stop signal. What could he do the first train tail end was just clear of the lights behind him. The second train should have stopped BEFORE passing the signal.
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