PRESCOTT, Ontario — One person is reported injured in a collision between two Canadian National trains Thursday morning, the Ontario Provincial Police report.
The collision occurred about 10:30 a.m. near an overpass at Edward Street in Prescott, about 65 miles northeast of Kingston, Ont., and just across the St. Lawrence River from Ogdensburg, N.Y.
CTV News reports four engines and 16 cars derailed in the collision, with one locomotive leaking fuel, according to a CN statement. All crew members were taken to the hospital for examination as a precaution. The cause of the accident is under investigation, with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada announcing it was deploying a team of investigators to the scene.
Prescott Mayor Brett Todd told CTV he believed it was a matter of good fortune that the incident wasn’t more serious: “Very thankful right now that no one was killed on scene and there was no loss of life.”
The Brockville Recorder & Times reports no hazardous materials involved, according to a CN statement.
— Updated at 7:30 p.m. CDT with additional details throughout.
Can Via trains get through?
Well, that looks like one GE loco which will need to be scrapped.
ya, unfortanatly. but u never know, it could be like a kismet loco.
i think that the loco with the 4 windows was sitting in the siting the switch was not lined the intermodal went into the sitng colliding with the train in the siting
George, the unit laying on its side torn up was the standing unit.
Jonathan, PTC is not used in Canada, I would not be surprised if after this one it won’t get a closer look.
There are some good pictures on google images of this wreck, very obvious what happened, stack train must have been travelling at a good speed when he hit the emergency. Would have been an oh no moment.
Do they not have PTC?
That first photo of the locomotives makes me wonder about the calculation of opposing forces when a standing train is struck by a moving train. It looks as if the lesser-damaged unit was standing,and the more-damaged one was moving. Have I got it right or backwards, or are the forces equal?