11 October 2005
Two Trains Go Off Tracks
Kamloops / Yale - There were two train derailments in the B.C. Interior on Tuesday morning -
in the span of about an hour.
Four cars went off the track just outside the CP railyard in Kamloops, which partially blocked the nearby Trans-Canada
Highway.
CP spokesperson Len Cocolicchio says all the cars were empty and there was no threat to the environment.
A short time later in the Fraser Canyon, a CN train hit a slide in a steep section near Yale causing a diesel spill.
CP is in charge of that cleanup as well because the accident happened on track it owns. Cocolicchio says the extent of the damage to
the rail line is still not known.
RCMP Const. Steve Hiscoe says two railway employees were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Environmental cleanup crews have been sent to Yale to assess the damage.
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