Administrator
Posted 16 February 2019 - 07:39 PM
Global News-Canada,- 2/16/19:
About 40 derailed train cars leaking crude oil near Manitoba town of St. Lazare
The cleanup is underway after about 40 train cars derailed early Saturday morning in rural Manitoba.
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Some of those cars, which were carrying crude oil, are leaking and CN is assessing the damage, said CN spokesperson Jonathan Abecassis.
Administrator
Posted 16 February 2019 - 07:45 PM
TSB of Canada:
Deployment notice
TSB deploys a team of investigators to the site of a train derailment near St-Lazare, Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, 16 February — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is deploying a team of investigators to the site of a Canadian National train derailment near St-Lazare, Manitoba. The TSB will gather information and assess the occurrence.
The TSB is an independent agency that investigates marine, pipeline, railway and aviation transportation occurrences. Its sole aim is the advancement of transportation safety. It is not the function of the Board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.
Administrator
Posted 17 February 2019 - 08:47 PM
CBC News, Manitoba, 2/16/19:
'You can smell crude in the air': Train carrying oil derails near western Manitoba village
About 37 crude oil cars have derailed and oil is leaking near St. Lazare, Man.
CN Rail is working to clean up an oil leak after nearly 40 train cars carrying crude oil derailed near a village in western Manitoba early Saturday morning.
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"You can smell crude in the air. That's really concerning," said rancher Jayme Corr. The derailment happened on his property, about 10 kilometres south of St. Lazare, in the rural municipality of Ellice-Archie.
"There's oil leaking, and where they're sitting is [near] a water lagoon," he said.
Administrator
Posted 20 February 2019 - 09:11 AM
Winnipeg Free Press, 2/19/19:
TSB probes link between automated emergency brake and train derailment
A CN oil train bound for Winnipeg derailed Saturday near St. Lazar causing 37 cars to pile up. (Transportation Safety Board)
OTTAWA — An automated emergency brake was involved in Saturday’s derailment of a Winnipeg-bound oil train travelling nearly 80 kilometres per hour in Western Manitoba, but it's unclear why it was triggered.
The Transportation Safety Board released its initial findings Tuesday as it probes how the CN Rail train managed to derail on flat ground, causing a leaking pile-up of 37 tanker cars. Automated emergency brakes can be triggered when a train detects an object between rail cars, though it's unclear whether this is what happened Saturday.
Administrator
Posted 24 February 2019 - 01:21 PM
DroneDJ, 2/22/19:
CN Rail kept quiet on oil spill size so two friends sent a drone up
In western Manitoba, Canada a train carrying crude oil derailed early Saturday morning and created an oil spill. CN Rail has not yet disclosed how much oil had leaked from the 37-car-wreckage. So two friends took it upon themselves to send a drone (Phantom) up in the air and have a look.
The drone footage shows the extent of the oil spill and the 37-car-wreckage near St. Lazare in Western Manitoba. CN Rail has as of yet not disclosed how much oil might have leaked out of the tankers. However, two friends took it upon themselves to send a drone up in the air and have a look.
The two friends, Curtis McLeod and Amon Rudolph captured the aerial footage about 10 hours after the spill happened.
Board Leader
Posted 30 April 2022 - 06:33 PM
Global News, 4/29/22:
Investigation into CN train derailment in Manitoba finds repair error played a role
An investigation into a 2019 train derailment that caused a large crude oil spill in western Manitoba has found the tracks failed because of a repair error nearly two months prior.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Administrator
Posted 03 May 2022 - 06:58 AM
RT&S, 5/2/22
Misaligned rail joint led to derailment of CN crude oil train in 2019
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada released an investigation report on the 2019 derailment of a loaded CN crude oil, saying that the derailment was caused by a misaligned rail joint bar that eventually caused the rail joint to fail.
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The failed joint had been repaired about six weeks prior to the accident. During the repair, a compromise joint bar, an offset joint bar used for joining two rails of different sizes which looks similar to a standard joint bar, was inadvertently installed with a standard joint bar. A joint assembled in this manner is unstable, will loosen over time, and can result in premature failure such as in this occurrence.
The 7th to the 41st tank car (35 cars) all sustained some form of impact damage during the derailment. Damage to tank shells, tank heads, bottom outlet valves (BOV), manways and protective housings resulted in 17 of the 35 cars being breached. (Footnote: Any tank car damage that resulted in a release of product was considered a breach of containment.) TSB
The failed joint was one of five in the south rail located within a relatively short distance of 49 feet. The five joints and associated plug rails adversely affected the vertical stiffness of the track in that area and led to a more rapid deterioration of the failed joint. The investigation also found that despite having a joint elimination program for the CN Rivers Subdivision, about 1500 joints and the associated plug rails remained in continuous welded rail territory. The volume of joints and plug rails indicated that the track infrastructure was deteriorating.
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