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Second train derailment near B.C.-Alberta border within a week

Locomotives sit idol at the CPKC railyard in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh. JMC

The Transportation Safety Board is investigating a derailment in British Columbia involving a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train.

It’s the second time this month a CPKC train has been involved in a derailment in B.C.

The Transportation Safety Board says a team of investigators is being deployed after the train derailed on Tuesday near Jaffray, B.C., about 347 kilometres southwest of Calgary.

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No further information has been released, and CPKC did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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The derailment comes a week after an incident near Elko, B.C., about 20 kilometres east of Jaffray, where CPKC says 12 empty train cars left the tracks.

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No one was injured in that derailment.

 

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