Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said Saturday it’s looking into two unrelated railway derailments in B.C.'s mountains, deploying investigators to one near Field, B.C., and gathering information on another near Revelstoke that sent two people to hospital.
The federal agency said both incidents involved trains operated by Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) railway.
One of CPKC’s trains derailed near Field, a small community near the Alberta border, the TSB said, adding it had sent a “team of investigators” to the site, known as Ottertail station, but did not provide details of when the incident occurred.
Meanwhile, another derailment nearly 13 kilometres east of Revelstoke happened after 10 p.m. Friday, after two trains collided east of the southern Interior city, sparking a fire, officials confirmed.
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The federal agency said both incidents involved trains operated by Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) railway.
One of CPKC’s trains derailed near Field, a small community near the Alberta border, the TSB said, adding it had sent a “team of investigators” to the site, known as Ottertail station, but did not provide details of when the incident occurred.
The railway says there was also a fire on one of the trains that has since been extinguished, and their crews remained on the site Saturday to investigate the cause of the crash and clean up the damage.
He added that an “acrid smell” hung over the town of around 7,500 people after the fire on the train, but there were no immediate concerns for the city’s water supply.
CBC News has asked the operator if there was any damage to the surrounding environment, including nearby streams.
CPKC responded with a short statement, reading that their environmental teams “are on site to access, contain and recover any spilled fuel from the locomotives.”
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