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Train Related Deaths
Study on train
related deaths
The TCRC has lobbied the government and railroads
for many years regarding the impact fatalities can have on our
members while they are on the job.
Latest News
CN
is provoking its workers to launch a strike
After only a few days of bargaining, it seems that the
Canadian National Railway Company (CN) is bent on provoking its
workers to launch a strike, regardless of the insistence of the
union to pursue discussions.
"Faulty
Rail Cars Hauling Dangerous Goods," warns the TSB
The
TSB
warned today that tens of thousands of faulty railway cars may be in
operation, hauling dangerous goods across Canada.
Five years after disastrous B.C. spill, the
Cheakamus River teems with life
The Cheakamus spill will end up costing CN more than
$7-million, not including the undisclosed expense of settling legal
claims to date, or the outcome of the single remaining claim by the
Squamish Nation ,which is still before the courts.
Simple fixes could keep trains from blocking
ambulances, retired conductor says
Ron Bowman watches with dismay as a freight
train groans to a stop in front of him a couple metres short of a
Cambridge railway crossing, before creeping forward and blocking
traffic for about five minutes.
Dozens of CN cars jump the tracks near Fort
Saskatchewan
A CN derailment near Fort
Saskatchewan overnight has left close to 40 train cars off the
tracks.
Strike by Toronto rail workers
averted
A strike that could have
disrupted service for travellers at Toronto's busy Union Station has
been narrowly averted after a tentative deal was reached with the
union representing railway workers.
Toronto rail workers poised to
strike
Railway maintenance workers at
Toronto's Union Station could go on strike Tuesday morning if
contract negotiations break down.
Saskatchewan farmer's complaint
against CN dismissed
A Saskatchewan farmer's complaint
about CN Rail eliminating grain loading sites has been dimissed by a
federal regulatory agency.
Area sealed off as railway
probes train derailment
Emergency officials
confirm no hazardous material has escaped from the rail cars damaged
in a train derailment near Airdrie early this morning.
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