Rail transportation

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Rail transportation safety investigation report

Substance use: an emerging safety issue

Substance use in the marine and rail industries is an emerging safety issue on the Watchlist.

Rail transportation safety investigation R25T0177

The occurrence

On 14 July 2025, at about 08:09 Eastern Daylight Time, a Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPKC) intermodal freight train travelling west at 56 mph on the Belleville Subdivision struck a southbound pickup truck as it was traversing the Hunt Road public grade crossing (Mile 115.64) in Cramahe, a rural township in southern Ontario. The crossing was equipped with a standard crossing sign and a stop sign. 

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Figure 1. Map of the occurrence location (Source of the main image: Railway Association of Canada, Canadian Rail Atlas, with TSB annotations; source of the inset image: Google Earth, with TSB annotations)

Investigation report: Railway employee injury at Ojibway Yard in Windsor, Ontario

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Deployment

TSB deploying following a train derailment near Chapleau, Ontario