A report into a January 2019 train derailment at the intersection of Highway 11 and Wanuskewin Road near Saskatoon has been released.
The Transportation Safety Board says rail manufactured in 1953 and installed shortly before the derailment was one factor in the wreck and that a number of factors were identified.
The report states the train was going about 50 kilometers per hour when the head-end of the train travelled over a gap in the rail, the impact from the wheels further damaged the rail until it failed under the 27th car, resulting in the derailment.
29 loaded grain cars and a mid-train locomotive went off the tracks with the locomotive catching fire.
No dangerous goods or hazardous materials were involved and no one was hurt.
