TSB investigators deploy to freight train derailment Saturday near Field, B.C.
February 20, 2024
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The Canadian Press
Eastbound trains wait in Field, B.C., for the line to be cleared following a derailment, on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada were deployed Saturday to the site of a train derailment near Field, B.C., close to the British Columbia-Alberta border. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada were deployed Saturday to the site of a train derailment near Field, B.C., close to the British Columbia-Alberta border.
TSB spokesman Liam MacDonald says there were no immediate reports of injuries, fires or leaks after the derailment involving two freight trains at Ottertail station Saturday evening.
MacDonald says initial preliminary reports indicate the derailment involves a parked and moving train.
He says there were reports of some rail cars that were on their sides.
The Field area derailment is the second train incident in B.C. so far this weekend.
Two rail crew members sent to hospital late Friday after four locomotives hit a stopped freight train.
