Kicking Horse River British Columbia - The rail line running through Field, B.C. that was the site of a train derailment that killed three Canadian Pacific (CP) workers on Monday has re-opened, a CP spokesperson said Wednesday.
 
OKthePK Joint Bar Editor:  The town of Field was not the site of the derailment. The wreck occurred just past the lower portal of the Upper Spiral Tunnel, at the Trans-Canada Highway overpass, and at the curve leading onto the upper Kicking Horse bridge above the Lower Spiral Tunnel.
 
"In close collaboration with Transport Canada, and upon completion of all necessary safety checks, CP's mainline through Field, B.C. re-opened earlier today," said CP spokesperson Salem Woodrow in an email to Global News.
 
"CP crews and contractors remain on the scene working diligently in challenging conditions to remove the damaged rail cars and equipment."
 
The train was travelling west to Vancouver when it derailed near the Alberta-B.C. border at around 01:00 Mountain time Monday, claiming the lives of conductor Dylan Paradis, locomotive engineer Andrew Dockrell, and conductor trainee Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmer.
 
All three men were from Calgary.
 
At a Tuesday morning news conference, Transportation Safety Board senior investigator James Carmichael said CP train 301 had been stopped with air brakes applied at Partridge, the last station before the entrance to the Upper Spiral Tunnel, for about two hours when "the train began to move on its own."
 
"A change-off between crews had occurred at this station as the previous crew was closing in on their maximum hours of service," he said.
 
"The occurrence crew had just arrived and boarded the train but were not yet ready to depart.
 
"We're going to try and determine why the brakes didn't stay in place."
 
Carmichael explained there were no handbrakes applied on the train while it was stopped.
 
Carmichael said they don't know the exact speed the train was travelling when it derailed.
 
Event recorder data from the lead locomotive isn't yet in the possession of the TSB as the locomotive was severely damaged.
 
Some data has been recovered from the tail-end locomotive and work is underway to get data from the mid-train locomotive.
 
Families and friends of the three men who were killed spoke out this week and a GoFundMe account has been set up to raise money in the victims' memory.
 
Spencer Gallichan-Lowe.