REVELSTOKE, B.C. — Two crew members were injured when a CPKC train rear-ended a stopped train and derailed Friday night east of Revelstoke, the CBC reports.
Meanwhile, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said it was deploying to the scene of another CPKC collision in Field, B.C., that occurred on Saturday.
The incident occurred about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Revelstoke at about 10 p.m. Four locomotives and four cars derailed. The railroad told the network that the crew members were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries; one has since been released.
Revelstoke Fire Chief Steven DeRousie said the agency was originally called to a report of a train collision with someone trapped inside the train, but was told by ambulance crews that the person was out of the train and returned to the station. The chief said he was told by a railroad representative that a fuel fire resulted from the derailment, but the department did not respond to the fire because it was outside city boundaries.
The railroad said the incident is under investigation.
The incident near Field, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of Revelstoke near the British Columbia-Alberta border, also involved a moving train hitting a parked train, a TSB spokesman told the Canadian Press. No injuries were reported and no fires or spills were involved. The Rocky Mountain Outlook reports that incident involved the derailment of 14 intermodal flatcars, including four containers carrying unspecified dangerous goods, according to the TSB. The derailment led to one container striking four containers on a train on an adjacent track, and also knocked out data, text, mobile, and landline phone service east of the derailment site until Tuesday, Feb. 20.
— Updated Feb. 18 at 9:30 a.m. CT with information on TSB deployment to second incident; updated Feb. 20 at 1:55 p.m. with additional information on Field incident.
