Canadian Pacific derailment claims three crew

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/

Cayden

Bad news, RIP...

Prayers to Families in this Tragedy,

I hope they can figure what went wrong here considering 200 Feet of fall, I can't fathom............

blueodessey said:

Prayers to Families in this Tragedy,

I hope they can figure what went wrong here considering 200 Feet of fall, I can't fathom............

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Reports are that it was a run away. In the old days this stretch of track had a 4.5% grade and the site of many run away accidents. The Spiral Tunnels were built to reduce the grade to 2.5%. At 2.5% grade trains can still get out of hand.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...ment-field-bc-calgary-investigation-1.5006374

Cayden

Surely tunneling 2 spiral tunnels through the Canadian wilderness, tunneling through hard rock was an absolutely daunting engineering task ... My thoughts and prayers go out to the crews and families that have lost loved ones over the past 100+ years