The recent runaway CP Rail train in the Rocky Mountains near Field, B.C., highlighted ongoing gaps in Canada's railway safety regime, more than five years after the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster that killed 47 residents of the small Québec town.
The British Columbia crash resulted in the deaths of three railway workers and the derailment of 99 grain cars and two locomotives.
In the B.C. accident, the train involved had been parked for two hours on a steep slope without the application of hand brakes in addition to air brakes.
