CP refutes faulty brakes as cause of fatal train derailment

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has cited faulty brakes as being one of the causes behind a fatal 2019 derailment of a 112-car grain train — a finding that Canadian Pacific disputes.

The February 2019 accident involved a CP (NYSE: CP) train with 112 loaded hopper cars traveling from Calgary, Alberta, to Vancouver, British Columbia. According to TSB, the inbound train crew wasn’t able to slow down the train adequately while descending the steep 13.5-mile-long Field Hill, and so...

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