LA BROQUERIE, Manitoba — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada reports a broken rail at a grade crossing has been confirmed as the cause of last week’s derailment of a Canadian National train near La Broquerie, the website Steinbach Online reports.
The 27-car derailment occurred Thursday, Jan. 11, at about 7:15 p.m. There were no injuries, and no leaks or fires resulted [see “CN train derails in Manitoba,” Trains News Wire, Jan. 12, 2024].
Steinbach Online reports that the TSB said in a statement that a broken rail occurred at the Road 36N grade crossing during its preliminary investigation. The agency is still assessing whether to conduct a full investigation.
My comment is in regards to Charles Landry. I’m sorry if there was any misunderstanding.
Philip I would bet very, very cold. An if there was snow on the ground a snow plow could have hit the rail. A few times when I was working for my local DPW I would shunt the rails an get a quick flash of the crossing gates.
What no comment section on the ead article this morning, which is METRA’s so-called “equity” fare structure.
So I’ll comment here. Quite aside from the fact that METRA is near bankruptcy, my comment is this: Transit companies aren’t set up to be social service agencies or welfare providers. There are numerous forms of income support in USA. If those are seen as insufficient for low-income families, then it should be addressed on that end. METRA should charge the same fare to everyone. Let the social service agencies do social service.
Meanwhile as I’ve posted several times before, if METRA is all that concerned about low income or racial minorities in southern Cook County, it should do something about LaSalle Street Station. Which is a disgraceful insult to its passengers that wouldn’t be toelrated for passengers taking trains to higher income suburbs.
That would be the La Salle Street that once hosted the 20th Century Limited?
Returning to the actual subject of THIS article, what was the rail temperature that evening?
Well, it is called La Salle Street Station, but it is a shell of its former self. I wouldn’t even have recognized it as a train station if the map I had hadn’t said that was what it was.
What does that have to do with the derailment in Canada?? 🤔😳
I think you have posted this comment in the wrong place.