Three CP Rail crew die after train loses control, plunges off B.C. bridge
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Three CP Rail crew die after train loses control, plunges off B.C. bridge
ERIC ATKINSTRANSPORTATION REPORTER
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 4, 2019UPDATED FEBRUARY 6, 2019
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The derailment is seen near Field, B.C., on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019.JEFF MCINTOSH/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Three Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. employees are dead after they lost control of a freight train in the Rocky Mountains and plunged about 200 feet off a bridge into the Kicking Horse River early Monday morning.
Moments before the fatal crash, the crew radioed to the railway’s traffic controllers that their train was out of control on the steep descending grade east of Field, B.C., said an official with Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.
“The train was running away. They couldn’t get it under control,” said Greg Edwards, Teamsters’ general chairman for CP’s engineers. “It left the tracks on the bridge and ended up in the river below the bridge. It is pretty ugly. Before they went in they notified the dispatching centre they were out of control.
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