Another train derailment near Fort Frances

By Duane Hicks
Fort Frances Times

CN crews were busy today cleaning up spilled grain near Fort Frances after 39 freight cars jumped the tracks around 5:45 p.m. yesterday.
The derailment took place in an isolated area about 25 km east of town.
The train, which had a total of 184 cars, was headed to Thunder Bay when the derailment occurred, Louis-Antoine Paquin, CN Regional Manager of Public and Government Affairs (Eastern Canada), told the Times Monday morning.
All the cars were carrying grain so no dangerous good were involved, he stressed.
There also were no injuries.
“CN crews have responded to the scene and have started removing the cars,” noted Paquin.
“Clean-up and repair activities are expected to last through the day,” he added.
CN also has began a comprehensive investigation into the cause of this derailment, Paquin said.
As well, the Transportation Safety Board has sent an investigator to the scene.
It’s the second CN freight to derail in the past two days.
On Saturday, six cars of a train carrying lumber left the tracks in Saskatchewan, just west of Saskatoon.
And in Alberta, there have been four train derailments in the past two months, including one in October that sparked a dangerous petroleum fire that forced the evacuation of the village of Gainford.