This is an excerpt from CBC News. I wasn't able to get the link to work.
"Transport Canada has ordered new safety measures following Monday's fatal Canadian Pacific derailment near Field, B.C.
Trains must now apply handbrakes during emergency stops on all grades over 1.8 per cent, according to an order issued Friday afternoon from Transport Minister Marc Garneau.
The train went off the track at Mile 130.6 of the Laggan Subdivision, between the Upper and the Lower Spiral Tunnel, at about 1 a.m.
The temperature was around –20 C.
The Transportation Safety Board said the train gained speed well in excess of the 32 km/h maximum for the tight curves on the route. The TSB is the lead federal agency responsible for investigating rail accidents.
The Spiral Tunnels, built in 1909 to reduce track grade, are still one of the steepest sections of track in North America with a grade of 2.2 per cent.
Dockrell, Paradis and Waldenberger-Bulmer were all members of TCRC. They had just boarded the train, which was parked with its emergency brakes activated for two hours above the steep descent to the spiral tunnels. They were preparing to take over when it started moving on its own.
"It was not anything the crew did. The train started to move on its own," TSB senior investigator James Carmichael said earlier this week. "We're going to try to determine why the brakes didn't stay in place.""
NH Joe
