Courtesy, Doug ZinkCARRINGTON, N.D. (KVRR) — Cleanup continues on a train derailment that happened Friday near Carrington, North Dakota. More than 20 Canadian Pacific train cars carrying hazardous material went off the tracks. Fire crews have extinguished most of the fire. Crews are working to complete the removal and isolation of the derailed rail cars containing methanol, anhydrous ammonia and…
CARRINGTON, N.D. (KVRR) – A Canadian Pacific train carrying hazardous material derailed early Friday near Carrington, North Dakota. Foster County Emergency Manager Andrew Kirking says the derailment involved more than 20 rail cars. The type of hazardous materials involved was not immediately identified. Some of the cars caught fire during the incident. Kirking says the crew is safe and there…
RICHLAND CO., N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The cold weather helped keep chemicals that spilled from a derailed Canadian Pacific train from spreading very far. Emergency Management Director Brett Lambrecht says with temperatures well below freezing, the leaked chemicals remained within about 100 feet of the derailment site south of Wyndmere. Liquid asphalt and ethylene glycol from six railcars mostly hardened and…
HANKINSON, N.D. (KVRR) — A Hankinson, North Dakota man escapes injury after his vehicle slides into the path of an oncoming Canadian Pacific train. It happened on the afternoon of Christmas Eve at 91st Street and 166 1/2 Avenue in Hankinson. 67-year-old Dean Prochnow was not hurt but his Chevy Silverado is considered a total loss. The crash remains under…
DETROIT – Canadian Teamsters and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage that stopped trains across Canada and interrupted shipments to and from the U.S. More than 3,000 CP Rail conductors, engineers, train and yard workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference are off the job after negotiators failed to reach a deal by a midnight deadline….
BARNES COUNTY, N.D. – A rail bed about a mile south of Bald Hill Dam washed out after a frozen culvert was unable to release a large body of water that backed up on the side of a hill. The washout occurred Saturday. A contractor and crews from Canadian Pacific Railway worked for more than 24 hours to repair the…
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. — One man is dead after being hit by a train one mile north of Detroit Lakes over the weekend. The Becker County Sheriff’s Office says 41-year-old Joseph Mackner, of Detroit Lakes was walking south on the tracks shortly after 5 o’clock Sunday night when he was struck by a Canadian Pacific Railroad train. Authorities say…
