On 16 July, a Union Pacific freight train derailed in the yard at Hays, a city in Kansas. Six of the affected wagons were conveying timber products, three contained beer and one poultry meal. Part of...
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The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has suspended the operating licence of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMAR) and its Canadian subsidiary with effect from 20 August. A fuel train...
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The Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is appealing a decision by the province of Quebec to add its name to the list of firms liable for clean-up costs at Lac Mégantic. CP was the principal contractor...
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In the aftermath of the fuel train runaway in Lac-Mégantic on 6 July, Quebec environment minister Yves-Francois Blanchet invoked powers in terms of Canadian provincial legislation to place financial...
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In the aftermath of the horrendous Lac Mégantic runaway, Transport Canada has issued an emergency directive banning the transport of dangerous goods in trains worked by a single-person crew. Also,...
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According to Canadian National Railway (CN) CEO Claude Mongeau, regulations should not be changed until investigations into the Lac Mégantic incident are completed. The reasons for what happened, he...
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In the course of a shunting move in the city of Denver, Colorado, on 23 July, four tankcars failed to stop on a dead-end into a light industrial building. They broke through the back of the building,...
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The Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA), whose 72-tankwagon runaway at Lac-Mégantic in eastern Canada caused havoc on 6 July, has been in the news before. Only two weeks previously, the fuel tank...
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Before dawn on Thursday 18 July, the locomotive and nine wagons in a freight train bound for Tucson, Arizona, from Dallas in Texas derailed near Aledo, about 24km south-west of Fort Worth, North...
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The United States' National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) notes that, in 2009, 69% of tankcars in the country were type DOT-111A. In Canada, where the same vehicle is designated CTC-111A), it...
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