Train disasters: Is it a new normal?
EDMONTON – A CN train carrying lumber and dangerous goods derailed early Sunday morning west of Edmonton.
CN Spokesperson Patrick Waldron says 13 cars — 12 carrying lumber and one carrying sulphur dioxide — came off the tracks around 1:00 a.m. It happened near Peers, AB, which is about 175 kilometres west of Edmonton.
Waldron says the car carrying sulphur dioxide is sitting upright and is not leaking.
The train — carrying 137 cars — was headed east from Prince George to Edmonton.
No one was injured in the incident and Waldron says there is no threat to the public or the environment.
CN crews are on site to determine what caused the train to come off the tracks.
The derailment comes just 15 days after a train carrying petroleum crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas came off the tracks near Gainford, AB.
The site of Sunday’s derailment is about 85 kilometres west of the Gainford site.
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