Field British Columbia - There were no injuries after an intermodal car from a CP freight train derailed in Field Saturday morning.
 
A spokesperson for Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) said the derailment was cleaned up, but the crossing was blocked for several hours.
 
The investigation into the cause of the derailment is ongoing, Salem Woodrow, CP's manager of communications, said in a statement.
 
The release said it took place at about 05:45 near the East 2nd Street crossing and CP crews were immediately dispatched.
 
"After all track repairs were made and safety inspections complete, CP reopened the rail line to freight traffic this morning," the release stated.
 
The derailment is one of the latest in the region.
 
A train carrying grain derailed on 26 Jan 2021 roughly 6.5 kilometres to the west of Field and also temporarily knocked out power to the town.
 
There were no injuries.
 
A derailment early in 2019 near Field had three people die when it went off the tracks between the Spiral Tunnels east of Field.
 
The RCMP launched a criminal investigation into the derailment last December.
 
In February 2019, there was a major grain train derailment in Banff National Park about seven kilometres west of Banff.
 
The derailment had 21 cars come off the tracks along a 300 metre area.
 
Since 2000, there have been at least 18 grizzly bears who have been killed on train tracks in Banff and Yoho national parks.
 
A male wolf was killed by a train near Vermillion Lakes on 11 Feb 2021 with Parks Canada saying at the time at least 10 wolves had been killed on train tracks in the past decade.
 
In January, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada released a follow-up to an audit on rail safety.
 
The 32 page report was following up on selected recommendations from their 2013 report on ways to improve rail safety following the Lake Megantic derailment that killed 47 people.
 
According to the report, there were 1,245 accidents involving trains in 2019.
 
Of those, 694, 56 percent, were derailments.
 
There were 72 deaths involving trains in 2019, per the report.
 
The report highlighted concerns and said the past 14 years have led to several recommendations to Transport Canada to look at the "effectiveness of railway companies safety management systems."
 
Calls to the Lake Louise and Golden fire departments confirmed neither were needed at the scene.
 
Greg Colgan.