1. March 4, 2020: Train derailment affects Thursday morning commute after ‘food grade product’ spills in Kingston
Kingston police are urging motorists to leave extra time for their Thursday morning commute as crews work to clean up a train derailment on Bath Road for a second day.
Early Thursday morning, officials with CN Rail alerted Kingston police that a portion of Bath Road had been damaged due to the toppled trains. The asphalt will need to be repaired.
The stretch between Armstrong and Queen Mary roads is expected to reopen Thursday afternoon.
CN officials, the Ministry of Environment, Kingston Fire and Rescue and Frontenac paramedics were called to the city’s west end after a train derailed Wednesday morning.
CN says eight cars ran off the tracks.
2. March 5, 2020: Freight train derails near Prince George, B.C., triggering school evacuation
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending a team of investigators to a train derailment in central British Columbia.
The CN freight train derailed near Giscome, which is about 40 kilometres east of Prince George and next to Eaglet Lake, at around 10 a.m. PT on Thursday morning. It prompted an evacuation from a nearby school.
It is not clear what the train was carrying, but the company says it was a variety of different products.
“On our way to town, at the Giscome crossing where the school is, there is a train wreck of propane tank cars — crumbled tanks,” said Catherine Kendall, who lives on a nearby farm.
“My concern was the kids.”
3. March 2, 2020: Arson suspect arrested in relation to CN Rail fire in Prince Rupert
One person has been arrested in connection with a serious fire at a CN Rail building in Prince Rupert, B.C.
The fire burned for hours after breaking out Sunday afternoon. RCMP were called around 4 p.m. PT, and officers soon arrested a young man for suspected arson.
The man remains in custody.
Cpl. Devon Gerrits said the incident isn’t believed to be related to recent protests at CN Rail sites across the country, some of which have involved small fires.
“No real motivation as of yet,” Cpl. Gerrits said Monday morning.
Around 70 people crowded on a nearby hillside to watch firefighters work to save the large building.
4. February 13, 2020: TTC subways resume service after morning derailment
(There is a lot fishy with this one. No one was injured because no one was on it. But its normally a very busy time of day and route. Someone is not saying what they know about this one. We have written about this before at Vlad and have vague insider on it but for the moment, its enough to say that something is not right about this event.)
5. March 5 train derail
Thank you Pail S., ML., and all who are watching the trains.
Question is, what is the statistical average of train derailments and incidents in Canada, historically, in the Feb.-March period?
BC train derailment: “Only a matter of time” before another Lac-Megantic tragedy
One is a tragedy, four is plain carelessness.