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Most of the car wheelsets from the 2019 derailment were recovered for “further examination and testing,” the Transportation Safety Board said. (TSB photo)

CP disputes TSB’s conclusions on fatal grain train crash

Safety board urges automatic parking brakes, 'enhanced' brake testing for conditions

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 1, 2022

The federal Transportation Safety Board’s report into the fatal derailment of a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) grain train in the Rocky Mountains in 2019 calls for changes to train braking systems and maintenance. CP, however, is questioning the TSB’s conclusions about the braking performance of the train involved, saying those conclusions are “based on inappropriate […] Read more

Snow and ice cover in North America as of Nov. 22, 2020. (NOAA.gov)

Crops, Livestock, Weather

Most of Prairies already covered in snow

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News November 23, 2020

MarketsFarm — Most of the Canadian Prairies were already blanked in snow by late November, with the deepest snowpack in Alberta and Saskatchewan, according to data compiled by Environment Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Aside from the Rocky Mountains and some areas around the Great Lakes, the U.S. was largely […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

CP grain train ‘began to move on its own’ before fatal derailment

By Reuters February 5, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — A Canadian Pacific Railway train was parked for a change of crew when it unexpectedly rolled down a steep embankment and derailed in British Columbia’s Rocky Mountains on Monday, killing three crew members, a transport regulator said. The train, hauling 112 cars of grain, was parked for two hours at the […] Read more

History, Our History

History: Our Rocky Mountain Passes

Reprinted from the December 1950  issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 14, 2017

Our Rocky Mountain Passes By Marjorie K. Stiles, Didsbury, Alta. ‘It must have been fifty years after La Verendrye sighted the Rocky Mountains, that vast snow-capped ridge of stone, beckoning to him from the horizon, before the fur traders and explorers were successful in penetrating the wilderness between the prairies and mountains. These men followed […] Read more

A sandstone rock sculpted by wind and weather in the Livingstone Valley.

History, Our History

History: The Livingstone Valley

Reprinted from the February 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff June 16, 2016

The Livingstone Valley By Freda Smith Mudiman, Lethbridge, Alta. ‘Between the Livingstone Range of the Rocky Mountains and the Porcupine Hills lies a long narrow valley watered by the Livingstone River of Southwestern Alberta. To the people who live there it is the North Folk District, for the Livingstone forms the north branch of the Oldman, […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise as Cattle on Feed report shows lower inventory

Canadian cattle herd sees first year-over-year increase since 2021

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend gains to two-month peak; corn and wheat choppy

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise as Cattle on Feed report shows lower inventory

Canadian cattle herd sees first year-over-year increase since 2021

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend gains to two-month peak; corn and wheat choppy

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CP disputes TSB’s conclusions on fatal grain train crash

Most of Prairies already covered in snow

CP grain train ‘began to move on its own’ before fatal derailment

History: Our Rocky Mountain Passes

History: The Livingstone Valley

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