{"id":395,"date":"2014-01-15T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=395"},"modified":"2014-01-15T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:10:31","slug":"cn-rail-says-heavy-rain-caused-train-derailment-in-vancouver-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/15\/cn-rail-says-heavy-rain-caused-train-derailment-in-vancouver-area\/","title":{"rendered":"CN Rail says heavy rain caused train derailment in Vancouver area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BURNABY, B.C. &#8211; A CN Rail spokeswoman has confirmed heavy rainfall led to a train derailment in the Vancouver area Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Hamer says the increased amount of rain caused a beaver dam to wash out, spilling large amounts of water onto the tracks and causing a train in Burnaby to jump the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>She says seven cars went off the rails \u2014 three of them were lying on their sides while four remained upright.<\/p>\n<p>Coal was spilt into a nearby creek that feeds into Burnaby Lake, but Hamer could not say how much.<\/p>\n<p>The train is owned by CP Rail, but the tracks and the crew are from CN Rail.<\/p>\n<p>Hamer says CN Rail is taking the lead in the cleanup and that the tracks should be operational by Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURNABY, B.C. &#8211; A CN Rail spokeswoman has confirmed heavy rainfall led to a train derailment in the Vancouver area &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}