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Rail transportation safety investigation R13Q0012

The occurrence

On 02 May 2013, at about 1948 Eastern Daylight Time, VIA Rail Canada Inc. passenger train No. 24, while carrying out a reverse movement between the Gare du Palais and the Limoilou Yard, collided with a tractor-trailer at the private level crossing leading to the White Birch Paper mill. The last passenger car was damaged, and the tractor-trailer was destroyed. No one was injured as a result of the accident. Nearly 300 litres of diesel fuel from the tractor-trailer's fuel tank spilled on the ground.

Rail transportation safety investigation R13Q0001

The occurrence

On 11 January 2013, at approximately 0018, Eastern Standard Time, freight train FCN 05 collided with the rear end of iron ore train BNL 005 at Mile 124.2 on the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway's Wacouna Subdivision, near Mai, Quebec. The first locomotive on train FCN 05 was completely destroyed and the second locomotive derailed. Eight cars on train BNL 005 derailed. The members of the FCN 05 train crew sustained minor injuries. Approximately 40 feet of track was damaged.

Rail transportation safety investigation R13E0015

The occurrence

On 24 January 2013 at 0856 Central Standard Time, eastbound Canadian National train L51141-23 struck a road grader that had stopped on the public grade crossing at Mile 33.70 of the Blackfoot Subdivision. As a result of the collision, the road grader was heavily damaged and the grader operator sustained fatal injuries. The train crew were not injured. Thelocomotive and 16 tank cars carrying dangerous goods derailed. Approximately 106,000 litres of crude oil was released from 4 cars.

Rail transportation safety investigation R13D0001

The occurrence

On 09 January 2013, at about 0950 Eastern Standard Time, VIA Rail Canada Inc. passenger train No. 601, while proceeding at 60 mph northward on the Canadian National Joliette Subdivision, struck a westbound vehicle at the rang de la Deuxième-Chaloupe public crossing at Mile 98.79 near the town of Joliette, Quebec. As a result of the collision, the vehicle’s 2 occupants were fatally injured.

Rail transportation safety investigation R13C0087

The occurrence

On , at about 1630 Mountain Daylight Time, Canadian Pacific Railway freight train 467-11 departing northward from Alyth Yard in Calgary, Alberta, en route to Red Deer, Alberta, derailed 7 tank cars loaded with liquid hydrocarbons at Mile 0.30 on the Red Deer Subdivision, in the Inglewood neighborhood of Calgary. About 600 feet of track was destroyed. There were no injuries and there was no product loss.

Rail transportation safety investigation R13C0069

The occurrence

On 27 June 2013, at 0320 Mountain Daylight Time, Canadian Pacific Railway freight train 292 26, proceeding eastward from Canadian Pacific Railway’s Alyth Yard in Calgary, Alberta, to Medicine Hat, Alberta, derailed 6 tank cars on the Bonnybrook Bridge over the Bow River at Mile 172.5 on the Brooks Subdivision. There was no product loss, and there were no injuries.

Rail transportation safety investigation R13C0008

The occurrence

On 19 January 2013, at 1523 Mountain Standard Time, eastward freight train CP 118-19 struck a vehicle at a level crossing at Mile 50.61 of the Brooks Subdivision. As a result of the collision, both the vehicle, a tanker truck loaded with petroleum crude oil (UN 1267), and the lead locomotive caught fire. The driver of the tanker truck and the two train crew members sustained minor injuries.

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