By Brennan Doherty, The Star Calgary; February 8, 2019
CALGARY—Days after a Canadian Pacific Railway train began sliding down a steep pass near Field, B.C. — killing all three crew members — federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau has issued an order requiring all trains in similar situations to also use hand brakes when stopped on mountain grades.
Before the train derailed, hurtling down one of the steepest grades in Canada before coming off the track and plunging 60 metres into the Kicking Horse River, it had sat for two hours in the bitter cold outside a remote mountain station.