Canadian Pacific Railway’s chief executive says the company is focused on safety, but the application of handbrakes introduces additional risks and will have unintended consequences.
CALGARY — Canada’s two largest railways are appealing Transport Minister Marc Garneau’s order requiring railways to immediately use handbrakes on all trains stopped on mountain slopes following a deadly derailment in the Rocky Mountains.The Calgary-based railway says it will comply with the ministerial order throughout the appeals process, including a review by the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada.
Three CP Rail employees were killed in early February after a Vancouver-bound train that was parked for two hours with its air brakes engaged started moving on its own and sped up to well over the limit before 99 cars and two locomotives hurtled off the tracks.
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