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"We are comfortable in saying the vast majority are already off," [Bryan Tucker] said. "We inspect all our wheels throughout the system, both mechanically and, in this case, we did visual inspections car by car."
"Our feeling is we have removed the vast majority from our property," he said. "We feel the problem has been addressed."The board has notified the Department of Transport that it should "ensure that all 36-inch Canadian National Transcona wheel shop wheel sets assembled between April 1998 and February 2001 be removed from cars operating in Canada." It also has contacted U.S. rail authorities because of the close integration of the continental rail system.See the full content of this document
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Transcona-Made Train Wheels Flagged
By Julian Beltrame
OTTAWA -- The Transportation Safety Board has called for the removal of 12,000 wheel sets still in use on some Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian Nationa...See the full content of this document
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