Tank cars stranded on colapsed bridge - Date/Photographer unknown.

28 June 2013

Derailed Calgary Tanker Cars Drained and Cleared from Broken Railway Bridge

Calgary Alberta - Crews in Calgary successfully removed six tanker cars that teetered on a broken rail bridge over the swollen Bow River early today.
 
Workers had earlier removed an oil product from the tankers, which derailed early Thursday morning when part of the bridge buckled as a Canadian Pacific Railway freight was passing over it.
 
CP confirmed the product, used to dilute raw oil sands bitumen, did not leak into the river.
 
The cars were stabilized before locomotives positioned on each end of the damaged bridge pulled them safely to each side.
 
Hunter Harrison, the CEO of CP, had said bridge piers at the bottom of the river failed, and that engineers blamed the failure on fast water scouring away gravel under the support.
 
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi had chastized Canadian Pacific for the derailment, but later said the rail company had apologized for the chaos.
 
Bill Graveland and Lauren Krugel.

Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Canada