Twenty-nine potash cars on a freight train derailed Saturday morning on a Canadian Pacific track near Camrose, Alta.
According to CP, it happened in Bawlf at about 9:50 a.m.
The company said there were no injuries and no threat to public safety.
CP also said no dangerous goods were spilled.
However, the derailment is blocking the crossing at Range Road 18 by Highway 13 east. Local RCMP are assisting.
“All appropriate emergency notifications have been made,” spokesperson Jeremy Berry said in an email to Global News.
“CP takes this incident extremely seriously and has enacted its emergency response processes. Crews and equipment have been deployed to the site.”
People living nearby described hearing a loud noise and, when they went closer, they reported saw “at least 20 cars like sandwiches.”
On Sunday morning, re-railing and the removal of rail cars was completed and crews had started to repair the track.
“The site cleanup and investigation is ongoing and we will ensure the site is restored as quickly as possible,” CP spokesperson Salem Woodrow said Sunday.
CP will re-open the rail line after all repairs and safety inspections are complete.
Bawlf is approximately 120 kilometres southeast of Edmonton. It is about 30 kilometres away from Camrose.
The company said the incident in Bawlf was “unrelated” to one in Wilkie, but “the locomotives and some of the cars from the train at Wilkie were on the train at Bawlf as it made its journey from east to west.”
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