13 December 2004

Mainline Derailment - Yale Sub

The following message came from Customer Services at CN.

On Saturday, Dec.11th, at approximately 0310hrs, CN freight train E20251-11 derailed near Abrahamson BC and Glen Valley BC, on the Yale subdivision of CN's main line.

The incident, which occured to the east of Vancouver BC, has affected trains running between Edmonton AB and Vancouver. In order to minimize impact to customer traffic, CN has detoured a portion of the affected traffic
over the CPRS main line. Customers should expect delays ranging from 12 to 24 hours.

Track was made passable at 0905 PST, Sunday, December 12th.

E- 20131-07 was the last train detoured via CPRS.

The following is the current start up plan.

Q10131 06 - ordered for 0215 - X Bosbar.
Q10131 07 to be ordered on connection - X Bosbar.
Q16151 11 will stage at Boston Bar for departure of 102 from Roberts Bank
Looking to run extra 303 out of Kamloops

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.