Crew members hurt when Via Rail passenger train derails in Saskatchewan

Source: The Canadian Press, July 5, 2018 

HUDSON BAY, Sask. — Via Rail Canada says two locomotives and a baggage car in a train headed from Winnipeg to The Pas in northern Manitoba derailed overnight in a remote area of east-central Saskatchewan.

The Crown rail company said Train 693 was carrying 16 passengers and five crew members when the accident happened shortly after 3:00 a.m. central time, about 37 kilometres north of the town of Hudson Bay.

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