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News Wire: Final report confirms broken coupler caused fatal Vancouver Island runaway

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Friday, December 14, 2018 8:27 AM

WOSS, British Columbia — Federal investigators say that a broken coupler and a poorly installed derail device led to the runaway that killed three railroaders on a Vancouver Island logging road in 2017. On Thursday, the Transportation Safety B...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/12/14-final-report-confirms-broken-coupler-caused-fatal-vancouver-island-runaway

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine

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Posted by NDG on Tuesday, December 25, 2018 4:33 AM
FYI.
 
TSB Report. Runaway Woss.
 
 

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