Train Collision and Derailment Between Rocky Mountaineer Vacations Inc., Passenger Train RMV P61051-21 and Canadian National Switching Movement YKSS30, Kamloops Yard, Kamloops, British Columbia, 21 May 2006


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"At approximately 1910 Pacific daylight time on 21 May 2006, Canadian National Kamloops 1230 yard assignment (switching movement YKSS30) pulling southward toward the Okanagan connecting track collided with unoccupied Rocky Mountaineer Vacations Inc. passenger train RMV P61051-21 pushing northward from the Okanagan connecting track into track KF21 in Kamloops Yard. Four passenger cars derailed and Canadian National locomotive 1420 was heavily damaged. There were no injuries"--Summary.