BT Vancouver: Clean-up Continues after Train Derailment

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Posted January 13, 2014 8:08 am.

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The clean-up continues in Burnaby after a weekend train derailment, blamed on the weather and on beavers. 152 CP cars were moving coal to Vancouver Saturday, when seven of them went off the rails near Cariboo Road and Government Street.

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