Canadian Railroads > collision @ Prescott ont, CN mainline

A collision has on occured on the CN toronto to Montreal main line at Prescott Ontario.
Prescott is located between brockville and Cornwall

The line is double tracked CTC controled.

VIA can reroute to Montreal via ottawa and brockville (Update:VIA has indicated that they will reroute through Ottawa where possible)

Crew; one minor injury reported per provincial police OPP

Occured around 1030 am

CN stated 4 locomotives derailed, including 2 on thier side along with 16 derailed cars
Based on opp and media reports it was a head on collision between two trains. It is reported (but not officially confirmed) the incident involved a stack train and a local switching job.
Per the pictures on the OPP east region Twitter site
- multiple stack cars were derailed.
- also shows a derailed locomotive & derailed covered hoppers
Ctv news video shows
- lead units of the stack train and multiple container cars are derailed



Sorry cannot get the link to post.
Sources: ctv Ottawa, cbc Ottawa, opp Twitter
I'll update as new i fo becomes available
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https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/one-person-injured-in-prescott-ont-freight-train-collision-1.5570966

 maybe this will work

Time for a whiz quiz.

Proud Foamer
OAKLEY, CA

Trains involved are intermodal 149 (montreal??? To chicago,3046 plus a second unit) and local 532 (brockville to Cornwall local with an ic gp38 and a cn gp38w)
The power on the local has, per photos, been substantially damaged, and is in the ditch. The intermodal trains 2 units appears much less damaged and are more or less upright on the right of way.

The trackage at the collision site is ctc controlled, so something went drastically wrong
*** update**
Based on pictures posted by a local resident, the collision occured where a siding joins the double tracked main line. The container train appears to have entered this siding and collided with the local.

Based on the damage to track and location of the derailed equipment, CN will be able to reopen the south track relativly quickly once the scene is released by the NSB.


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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/21 05:57 by dxm332.

Would PTC have prevented it ? 

dxm332 Wrote:
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> Trains involved are intermodal 149 (montreal???
> To chicago,3046 plus a second unit) and local 532
> (brockville to Cornwall local with an ic gp38 and
> a cn gp38w) <

Z149 had CN 3046-CN 3102. L532 had IC 9629-CN 4799.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/21 16:55 by Habu.

9629 must have extraordinarily bad luck, considering its role in the infamous ICG wreck at Livingston, LA almost 40 years ago.

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SCL1517 Wrote:
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> 9629 must have extraordinarily bad luck,
> considering its role in the infamous ICG wreck at
> Livingston, LA almost 40 years ago.

Good point… I’d forgotten ICG 9629 was the leader on GS2-28 on that fateful morning. It survived the Livingston derailment unscathed; this time, it wasn’t so lucky.

joemvcnj Wrote:
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> Would PTC have prevented it ? 

Not if the signal indication was Restricting.

TAW

TAW Wrote:
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> joemvcnj Wrote:
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> > Would PTC have prevented it ? 
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> Not if the signal indication was Restricting.
>
> TAW

Judging by the amount of damage they weren't moving at Restricted speed.