Canadian Railroads > Yale Derailment

YALE, B.C. — A train has derailed near the Fraser Canyon community of Yale.

Initial reports on social media suggest eight cars left the track, and spilled at least some of their contents into the Fraser River.

It is believed the rail cars were carrying grain, and appear to belong to CP Rail.

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Eastbound or westbound?  East would mean it's on CP's side, west is CN.  No mention of it on DriveBC so it's not on any of the CP sections that run close to the highway.  I just came through there yesterday evening on the way home from Edmonton...

Keith Robertson
Langley, BC

LKeithR Wrote:
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> Eastbound or westbound?  East would mean it's on
> CP's side, west is CN.  No mention of it on
> DriveBC so it's not on any of the CP sections that
> run close to the highway.  I just came through
> there yesterday evening on the way home from
> Edmonton...

 How many eastbound grain loads have you seen in BC?

PHall Wrote:
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>  How many eastbound grain loads have you seen in BC?

Boy ya got me there.....now where's that dang red-faced smiley?

Keith Robertson
Langley, BC

There was just a story on the local news at 23:00. They said it was near Saddle Rock north of Yale. It was a C P R train, but the confusing part is seems to be a Westbound on C.P. instead of the directional running on C.N .If you google Global BC you should be able to see the story. Cheers GREENGROCER There was just another story on C T V News at 23:30 that answers many questions The train was a C.P.R. Westbound but the derailment was on the CNR as per directional running. Two locomotives and up to 10 cars derailed after possibly hitting a rockslide.Cheers GREENGROCER



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/25/16 23:58 by GREENGROCER.

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/train-carrying-grain-derails-beside-fraser-river-1.3131432
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grain-car-derailment-1.3821426
http://www.theprovince.com/news/local+news/train+with+grain+cars+derails+near+boston/12317289/story.html

This should have the CP RTC questioning the wisdom of ripping  sidings out.

Chris Rye

Looks like tree damage uphill from right behind the trainling loco.  Evidence of said rock/landslide?

It looks lite the poor hogger got there just in time to see that humungous pebble hit the nose. If he had been slower, it might have hit the cab. Such is the luck of the draw in Fraser/Thompson Canyon railroading

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blunozer2000 Wrote:
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> It looks lite the poor hogger got there just in
> time to see that humungous pebble hit the nose. If
> he had been slower, it might have hit the cab.
> Such is the luck of the draw in Fraser/Thompson
> Canyon railroading

Hey, blunozer, that ain't a pebble, and most likely you have never been in a locomotive cab about to hit one of these rocks, big or small. I'll tell you it is not a pleasant feeling or thought that in moments you might be riding the locomotive down the bank and into the river, once in the dark cold river in an upside down locomotive fighting for your life. Speed had nothing to do with this accident, nor was it luck of the draw.
Do agoogle on the Fraser River and you will find that the water flow is 125,000 cubic feet per second, enough to fill 3 swimming pools every second. Somehwere in the trivia part of mind, the Fraser River averages 17 miles per hour, it does not flow, it boils. If a person fall into the Fraser River, very seldom do they surface again.
I must give credit and praise to the CN & CP crews that run the Fraser Canyon on a regular basis, it's very scenic and can be very deadly.
Doug

With trains approaching 150-200 cars this is a mute point.

Let me know how 2 mile monsters are supposed to meet eachother?

exrtc Wrote:
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> This should have the CP RTC questioning the wisdom
> of ripping  sidings out.
>
> Chris Rye

Same way they do it on single track in the rest of Canada.

Chris Rye