Canadian Pacific Railway manager guilty in case of train left on British Columbia mountainside without handbrakes

By Bethany Lindsay, CBC News;

A CP Rail manager faces possible jail time for his role in illegally parking a freight train carrying explosive materials on a mountain slope above Revelstoke, B.C., without proper handbrakes.

Last week, a B.C. provincial court judge found Tim McClelland guilty of two charges of contravening an emergency directive from Transport Canada, a breach of the Railway Safety Act.

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