Freight and passenger trains on Canadian National Railway’s (CN) main line were delayed up to a day after over 50 carloads of potash jumped the tracks in western Manitoba.
According to the Brandon Sun newspaper Friday, 56 cars out of a 99-car train, all loaded with potash, derailed with some spillage, but no dangerous goods were aboard and no injuries reported.
CN, in a statement Thursday, reported that the cars derailed at 9:35 a.m. CT on the company’s Rivers subdivision near Myra, Man., about 50 km northwest of Brandon, affecting trains running between Winnipeg and Edmonton.
The company said Thursday it had detoured some of the affected traffic onto its Prairie North Line “to minimize any impact” from the derailment, but customers could expect shipments scheduled for the main line to be delayed by “up to 24 hours.”
CN said Friday morning that the site was cleared by 9 a.m. CT, but shipments would “incur some further delays as normal service is restored.”
The Sun reported Friday that the cause of the eastbound train’s derailment was still under investigation.
