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Fraser's son, Dylan Paradis, was a conductor on the Canadian Pacific freight train that plummeted off a bridge in February 2019. Paradis, engineer Andrew Dockrell and trainee Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmerone were in the lead locomotive and were killed. Fraser and Dockrell's family have filed lawsuits alleging negligence in the derailment that sent 99 cars and two locomotives tumbling off the tracks. "Gross negligence is a good word. I think it's an utter lack of respect for human life," Fraser said. The westbound train was parked on a grade and had its air brakes on when it started rolling on it...

FIELD, B.C. - The mother of one of three railway employees killed during a train derailment near the British Columbia-Alberta boundary doesn't want anyone else to feel the same kind of pain that her family did.

CPPS officers have no training in rail disasters involving criminal wrongdoing or in forensic investigations. Despite the thousands of deaths, derailments and serious injuries in CP operations over the years, according to the lawsuits, CPPS has never laid criminal charges against the corporation or its executive leaders for conduct relating to railway disasters. 'The train is out of control' On the night of Feb. 3, 2019, Train 301's previous crew had struggled in the conditions to control the train as it began to descend the mountain. Just one day before his death, Dockrell recorded that he'...

Families of workers killed in B.C. train derailment allege negligence in lawsuit by The Canadian Press Last Updated Apr 19, 2021 at 4:14 pm EDT FIELD, B.C. — Families of two of three people killed in a train derailment near the British Columbia-Alberta boundary have filed lawsuits alleging negligence. The westbound Canadian Pacific train was parked on a grade and had its air brakes on in February 2019, when it started rolling on its own, gaining speeds far above the limit for the mountain pass near Field, B.C. The Transportation Safety Board has said handbrakes were not applied and the trai...

Author of the article: Bill Kaufmann Publishing date: Dec 17, 2020  •  December 17, 2020  •  4 minute read  •  Three crew members of a Canadian Pacific freight train died in a derailment near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary. A spokeswoman with the railway said the crew members died when the westbound freight jumped the tracks at about 1 a.m. MT near Field, Alta., Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh Article content Nearly two years after the tragedy, RCMP have opened a criminal investigation into a train derailment in eastern B.C. that killed ...