December 9, 2013 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, December 9, 2013) OTTAWA — A continuing CBC News investigation into rail safety has found that Canada’s largest freight carrier CN Rail did not report to authorities more than 1,800 derailments, including 44 on key rail arteries. This came to light...
December 5, 2013 | CN, Headlines
(Source: CN press release, December 3, 2013) MONTREAL — Claude Mongeau, president and chief executive officer of CN, said today the railway’s reach, service, innovation, understanding of its customers’ markets and commitment to delivering safely make it a true...
December 4, 2013 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, December 3, 2013) MONTREAL — The head of Canada’s largest railway says crude oil tank cars must be redesigned to avoid another tragedy like last summer’s deadly explosion in Lac-Megantic, Que. Full story: Medicine Hat...
December 4, 2013 | CN, Headlines, Whistleblower
(Source: U.S. Department of Labor press release, December 3, 2013) HOMEWOOD, Ill. — Illinois Central Railroad Co. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for one willful and six serious safety violations...
December 3, 2013 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, November 28, 2013) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. says it’s investing $10 million in a special program to enhance its ability to detect equipment defects, such as hot wheels and bearings in its rolling stock. Full story:...
November 20, 2013 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, November 19, 2013) TISDALE, Sask. — A Canadian National Railway employee was killed in a train accident near the small northeastern town of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada’s largest railroad confirmed on Tuesday. The Transportation Safety Board...
November 5, 2013 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Toronto Star, November 5, 2013) TORONTO — As a growing number of train derailments raise public safety concerns, documents that contain a rail company’s safety plan — and play a key role in the regulation of the rail industry — are “locked up in a vault,” say...
November 5, 2013 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, November 4, 2013) TORONTO — Canadian National Railway Ltd reopened a section of its main line in the western province of Alberta late on Sunday after it was blocked by a train derailment earlier in the day, CN said on Monday, adding that the cause of...
November 4, 2013 | Accident, CN, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg News, November 3, 2013) EDMONTON — A Canadian National Railway Co. (CNR) train derailed about 111 miles west of Alberta’s capital Edmonton today. Thirteen cars on a train traveling eastbound derailed around 1 a.m. local time, including 12 loaded...
November 1, 2013 | CN, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, October 24, 2013) OTTAWA — A CBC News investigation has unearthed allegations that suggest CN Rail has routinely under-reported minor derailments and misrepresented its yard efficiency measurements across Canada and the U.S. The CBC probe was...
