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VANCOUVER—A longtime Canadian Pacific Railway engineer in Revelstoke, B.C., said he’s concerned but not surprised that a CP manager was found guilty of ordering a train with potentially explosive freight to be left on a hill without applying a handbrake.
The July 16 guilty verdict in connection with the incident, which took place near Revelstoke, came just over a week after the fifth anniversary of a deadly train derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Que. An unattended 74-car train carrying crude oil rolled downhill, derailed and exploded in the town, killing 47 people.
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