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Rail cars fall from Georgia overpass; no injuries reported
Byromville, GA — Rail cars tumbled from an overpass onto a Georgia highway on Saturday, causing an evacuation and traffic headaches in a small town but resulting in no injuries. CSX Railroad said 30 cars derailed. That included some that…
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One worker dead after being trapped in derailed train in Manitoba
Thompson, MB. — A railway worker has died and another suffered serious injuries after rescuers spent hours trying to free them from the wreckage of a derailment in northern Manitoba. The Arctic Gateway Group, which recently purchased the Hudson Bay…
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No danger after freight train derailment near Quebec Ontario border
Saint-Polycarpe, QC. — Quebec’s public security minister offered assurances Tuesday that nothing leaked into a nearby river after a Canadian Pacific freight train derailment just east of the Ontario border. The Quebec Environment Department says 25 of the 95 rail cars derailed…
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Mass and other events to be held today to mark Lac Megantic anniversary
Lac-Megantic, QC — A commemorative church service will be held in Lac-Megantic on Friday to mark the five-year-anniversary of the train derailment that killed 47 people and destroyed part of downtown. Church bells will ring around noon to remember the…
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Safety board chair says more needs to be done five years after Lac Megantic
Ottawa, ON — The head of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada says much has been accomplished five years after the Lac-Megantic train derailment in which 47 people were killed, but more remains to be done. Kathleen Fox, the board’s…
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Eight CN Rail freight cars derail in Metro Vancouver, closing busy rail bridge
New Westminster, BC — Eight cars from a Canadian National Railway freight train have jumped the tracks in Metro Vancouver. CN spokeswoman Kate Fenske says in an email that the empty grain cars derailed just after midnight on the Fraser…
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Another group of residents seeks to sue CP Rail over Lac Megantic rail disaster
Montreal, QC — A new group of mostly Lac-Megantic residents is seeking authorization from Quebec Superior Court to sue for economic and moral damages worth upwards of $5 million relating to the Lac-Megantic rail tragedy in 2013. Train engineer Tom Harding, Canadian…
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Lac Megantic rail bypass to be funded jointly by federal, Quebec governments
Lac-Megantic, QC — Nearly five years after a train derailed in Lac-Megantic and killed 47 people, the federal and provincial government confirmed a rail bypass Friday that will ensure trains leave the Quebec municipality’s downtown core for good. Prime Minister…
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Irving owned railway pleads not guilty to safety violations in oil transport
Saint John, NB — A railway owned by New Brunswick’s Irving family has pleaded not guilty to 24 charges alleging the company violated safety standards in the way it transported oil. The allegations against the New Brunswick Southern Railway Company…
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Railway won’t have to stand trial for Canada train disaster
Montreal, QC — The bankrupt railway at the centre of a 2013 train derailment that killed 47 people in the Canadian province of Quebec will not have to stand trial for criminal negligence, provincial officials said Tuesday. There was little…
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Broken rail led to Saskatchewan potash train derailment: TSB report
Swift Current, SK — An investigation has concluded that a split rail ultimately led to the derailment of a freight train carrying potash in southwestern Saskatchewan last fall. A Transportation Safety Board report says the crack had been there for some time…
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MMA and former employees settle, fined $1.25 million in Lac Megantic case
Montreal, QC —The bankrupt railway at the centre of the Lac-Megantic train explosion as well, as several of its former employees, settled with federal prosecutors on Monday and were ordered to pay fines totalling $1.25 million, while one ex-railway worker…