Cargo Business Newswire

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Another CN train derails in Canada

Canadian National Railway says a tar-like hydrocarbon spilled last week when 13 cars of an eastbound freight train derailed in southern Manitoba.

The accident happened about 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, near the small community of Gregg.

CN said in a release that the cars were carrying refinery cracking stock, a non-regulated commodity, and that one of them spilled some of its load. A company spokesman said the hydrocarbon product isn't dangerous.

CN was also involved in a fiery crash March 7 when a train carrying Alberta crude derailed just outside

Gogama in northern Ontario. The track and a bridge were destroyed, and a trace of oil product was found in the mouth of the local river system.

Canada Transport Minister Lisa Raitt says she's made her concerns known to CN Rail, according to a CBC News story.

"It does make you think and it makes you wonder ... operationally, that they have to make sure what they’re doing is exactly correct," she said. "That’s a lot of cars and that’s too many derailments, in my opinion, in a short period of time."

For more of the CTV News story: www.ctvnews.ca