TSB report points to axle failure behind 2018 Landis train derailment
A catastrophic axle failure is being pointed to as the cause behind a 2018 train derailment outside Landis.
The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) released its final report on the Sept. 26 Canadian National (CN) derailment that involved 41 covered hopper cars carrying grain and two mid-train locomotives.
At around 9:15 a.m., the TSB report said the train was travelling at 51 miles per hour through the town, which is about 80 kilometres south of North Battleford, when it experienced an “undesired emergency brake application.”
When TSB investigators examined the site, they found the first car to derail was missing its number one axle and wheels. A broken axle from the railcar was discovered north of the track, about 300 feet east of the track switch. The other half of the axle and wheel set were not recovered.