Jack-knifed freight. Tankers with hazardous contents didn’t puncture.
Railroad: No injuries, no hazardous spill
LANCASTER, Minn. – A freight train with tankers carrying hazardous cargoes derailed 20 miles southeast of the Canada border crossing at Pembina. The Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad was quick to report there were no leaks. Nor were injuries reported. Twenty-four cars jumped he rails about 4:30 p.m. four miles south of Lancaster. The derailment was in an open rural area area along Highway 59, which connects the U.S-Canada border at Tolstoi to Detroit Lakes and Worthington in Minnesota and south into Iowa. The highway was blocked and traffic detoured. The CP route goes southeast from Lancaster to Minneapolis and Winona and destinations father south and east. The derailment was the fourth major rail accident srecently in the Upper Midwest:
> May 30. A CP pusher-locomotive and a dozen cars derailed near Balfour in central North Dakota without injury, but there was a minor fire.
> April 27. Two BNSF locomotives and 10 cars derailed on the Mississippi River in southwest Wisconsin, injuring four crew members and spilling cargo, some hazardous, into riverside swamps.
> March 30. Twenty-three cars of a BNSF freight derailed near Raymond in western Minnesota, with ethanol escaping and burning and forcing evacuation of half the town.