(The following appeared on the Edmonton Sun website on July 13.)
EDMONTON — A rail line disabled by Saturday’s train accident north of Edmonton is running again, a CN official confirmed yesterday.
“The line was open again (yesterday) at five o’clock in the morning,” said Kevin Franchuk. The company still doesn’t know, however, what caused eight of 100 cars carrying petroleum coke to derail at about 1 p.m. Saturday near Caslan, about 170 km north of Edmonton.
In the meantime, workers continue to clean up the scene, Franchuk said.
The derailment caused no injuries, and officials say the coke being hauled from Fort McMurray to Edmonton isn’t hazardous.
The derailment was the second incident of its kind in a week. On Thursday, traffic became snarled in Sherwood Park after a train carrying consumer goods derailed over a Highway 16 overpass.