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Tuesday’s accident revived recollections of a devastating crash closing July, while a runaway train wearing mild crude from North Dakota’s Bakken place exploded in the heart of the metropolis of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing forty seven. That educate covered DOT-111 cars.

the new Brunswick teach derailed in a rural vicinity near a small village in jap Canada. a total of nineteen automobiles and one locomotive at the 122-vehicle, four-locomotive teach went off the rails. 3 motors, one of them a crude tanker, had been nonetheless burning on Thursday.

CN Rail did now not specify whether or not the crude tanker nonetheless on hearth changed into an vintage or new version or whether the newer variations of the DOT-111 fared any higher than the older ones within the crash.

three of the five derailed crude tank vehicles had been new DOT-111 fashions that follow higher U.S. standards ordered after October 2011, CN spokesman Mark Hallman said in an e-mail.

in contrast to three other such incidents, the crude shipment got here from Western Canada, now not North Dakota, officials have stated. a number of it was destined for Irving Oil’s Saint John refinery.

Hallman stated CN and the Transportation safety Board (TSB) of Canada were nevertheless investigating the nature of the harm to the tank vehicles and the extent of product affected.

The U.S. Pipeline and dangerous substances protection administration is within the method of assessing remarks on proposed new guidelines on DOT-111 specification, but it is not clear while a final decision will be made or how it'd be phased in. The affiliation of yankee Railroads has recommended that even more moderen fashions get enhancements.