Report says automatic parking brakes and more brake testing standards for trains on hills needed
A fatal train derailment high in the Canadian Rockies has prompted calls for Transport Canada to push railways to install new safety measures — including automatic parking brakes and more brake testing standards for trains on hills.
Conductor Dylan Paradis, trainee Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmer and engineer Andrew Dockrell took over the train that had been left parked on a hill when it began moving on its own shortly after midnight. All three were killed. While the train had passed an airbrake test in Calgary, those tests don’t measure how effective the brakes are. The TSB report found that the main factors in the crash were the fact the train was left sitting for several hours on the steep grade in the cold, resulting in air leaking out of the braking system.
The events of that night have long been controversial. Following a preliminary review, RCMP began a criminal investigation in December 2020.
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