DELTA, British Columbia — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating a collision and derailment involving two BNSF Railway trains that occurred early today (Sunday, Nov. 19) in Delta, the CBC reports.
Railroad spokeswoman Lena Kent told the CBC two locomotives and five cars derailed in the incident at about 2:30 a.m. A small amount of fuel spilled from one of the locomotives; no other hazardous materials were involved and no crew members were injured. Adjacent Provincial Route 91 was closed to accommodate cleanup. The TSB said it was sending an investigator to examine the incident.
Delta is between Vancouver, B.C., and the U.S. border on BNSF’s New Westminster Subdivision.
There is no PTC in Canada. (at least not yet)
Should the BNSF just stayed in the US?
The Great Northern built from Seattle to Vancouver BC to gain the Canadian traffic.
Ed Burns
Where is PTC when you need it? Wasn’t this blazing technology designed to eliminate collisions? Or was this one in a yard?
If the traffic level required it, PTC would be installed between Seattle and Blaine BC; Canada does not require PTC,
So what’s the count on TRAINS.COM in like the last 72 hours? About five or six collisions, derailments, fires, whatever.
“Dangerous news have been detected
Streaming all over North America
As bad as it seems, it’s worse than expected
Fleeing through the rail corridors”
Dr. Güntürk Üstün