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Length of CN train catches eye of Canada's safety regulators

(The following appeared on the National Post website on February 26, 2011.)

Shortly after 5:30 a.m. on March 21, 2009, a Canadian National Railway Co. freight train destined for Montreal derailed outside Brighton, Ont., a small town about two hours east of Toronto.

In all, six rail cars were ripped off the tracks three carrying hazardous materials after the train, which stretched nearly 2.7 kilometres, came to an unexpected and abrupt stop. This forced some of the heavier cars in the back of the train to crash into some lighter ones closer to the front, causing the knuckle connecting them to break. 

There were no injuries or hazardous materials spilled, but the accident did catch the eye of regulators. Not because of its impact, but because of the sizeable length of the train involved, how it was built, and the echo it carried of previous accidents involving these longer, heavier trains that are increasingly populating the countrys largest railways.

The full story appears at www.NationalPost.com.

Monday, February 28, 2011



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LINTCO: We build our trains for destination, not dynamics.

I have had one of the most gawd awful trains, they were even scarier than some of the pics that Troll finds. One was 15 89' empty flats on the head end of 12000 tons. I radioed the trainmaster and protested, he said that a train made up the same way had derailed the night before, good luck.

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15 springs ready to be sprung. Illegal train for us.

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Poor train handling. Guilty!

The science of physics does not exist at LAMCO! No. They've checked it out in the LAMCO labs and found it to be alarmist thinking.

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