CBC/Radio-Canada. A train derailment has forced Giscome Elementary School to be evacuated. Share on Facebook. NetNewsLedger - February 19, 2020. News; Highway 602 remains Closed due to CN Train Derailment. Print. By. Mar 5, 2020 1:35 PM By: Hanna Petersen. Forward by Email. CN train carrying crude oil derails near Fort Frances, Ont. Multiple rail cars are leaking crude oil after a CN Rail train derailment west of Fort Frances, Ont. The train was confirmed to be carrying dangerous goods during the derailment. However, CN Rail officials did confirm on Facebook that there were no injuries and no threats to public safety. Evacuation Ended in Emo. FORT FRANCES, ON – On February 18, 2020, at approximately 8:30 pm officers from the Ontario Provincial Police, Rainy River District Detachment were called to assist the Canadian National … The locomotive caught fire and the fuel tank was leaking. GISCOME —UPDATE Mar.5 at 5:30 P.M: Giscome Elementary will remain closed tomorrow, Friday, March 6 due to a train derailment that occurred Thursday (March 5) morning. However, CN Rail officials did confirm on Facebook that there were no injuries and no threats to public safety. 1 / 1 A train derailment has forced Giscome Elementary School to be evacuated. The cause of this derailment was found to be a failed wheel bearing on the 82nd car. (via Facebook/Jennifer Goold) (via Facebook/Jennifer Goold) Clean-up is ongoing following the March 5 CN train derailment which saw 27 cars go off the track and a small spill of petroleum coke into an adjacent creek 40 km east of Prince George. Students are being evacuated to Willow River Church. 2020-02-19. Crews have finished removing the 16 derailed rail cars and are now working at repairing the low-lying bridge over the muskeg where the derailment occurred. CN crews continue to work at the site of a train derailment in Anzac that happened in the morning of Monday, May 4.

A second CN train derailment in Potterville, Michigan, occurred in May 2006, though no evacuation was necessary.

According to a release from the School District, staff and students from Giscome Elementary will be re-routed to Blackburn Elementary for Friday, March, 6. Share via Text Message; Previous Next. Home News Highway 602 remains Closed due to CN Train Derailment. It derailed at Highway 11 just north of where it intersects with Wanuskewin Road. (via Facebook/Jennifer … About 9:04 am central standard time on February 9, 2003, northbound CN freight train M33371 derailed 22 of its 108 cars in Tamaroa, Illinois. VIDEO: Giscome Elementary School, east of Prince George, evacuated after CN train derailment. The train was hauling grain. The Transportation Safety Board concludes that a CN freight train derailment on January 22nd of 2019 was caused by a broken rail on the track. Share on Twitter.