A Canadian Pacific Railway grain train heading west to Vancouver on the Mountain Subdivision derailed just west of the Spiral Tunnels killing three crew members today (February 4[SUP]th[/SUP], 2019). The train fell more than 60 metres from a bridge. Judging from the pictures and Google Earth, the train went off the bridge between the Upper Spiral Tunnel and the Lower Spiral Tunnel. Pictures appear to have been taken from were the Trans Canada Highway crosses the tracks between the two tunnels. That would suggest that the locomotives in the picture were in the middle of the train, as is customary, and are not the lead locomotives, which the news article indicates ended up in the Kicking Horse River.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4922096/train-derailment-field-b-c/
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https://globalnews.ca/news/4922096/train-derailment-field-b-c/
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