Train derailed in Bonnybrook

[Regulator75]

Avoid Deerfoot this morning.

http://www.660news.com/2013/06/27/tr...down-deerfoot/

Police, fire and EMS are on scene at a structural failure of the Bonnybrook rail bridge over the Bow River.

The City of Calgary has closed Ogden Road between 42nd and 50th Avenues and Deerfoot Trail between Glenmore Trail and the Calf Robe Bridge in both directions.

More info.

The bridge in Ogden is in danger of collapsing, and is apparently coming apart in two places.

There is a train on the bridge, and there are fears that the structural damage could cause it to fall into the water – or that its cargo could leak.

Police have the whole area blocked off, and warn it could be dangerous to be nearby.

Deerfoot Trail is closed in both directions between Glenmore Trail and 17th Avenue

Deerfoot Trail & Ogden Road is closed.

Ogden Road is also shut down at the following locations:

17 Street
50 Avenue
Millican Road

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Avoid Deerfoot this morning.

http://www.660news.com/2013/06/27/tr...down-deerfoot/

Guess I am leaving for work now!

Hope I get there by 10...

[worth]

yes, apparently traffic is already f'ed everywhere.

[burn_this_city]

That's terrible, the city can't catch a break this week.

[Knut]

Could not thank you enough right now. About to leave fr the airport.

Ring road it is

[worth]

Avoid glenmore at all costs. The lineup to get nb on 52 from Glenmore is miles long. Traffic is massive between deer foot and Ogden road on Glenmore EB.

[burn_this_city]

This bridge goes under Deerfoot, I wonder if they closed it as a precaution.

[billybob123]

Looks like CP is really getting pooched by this flood. They have been working to fix washouts in Canmore and near Edworthy, now this between Ogden and Alyth.

[psicodude]

Reports on twitter are saying the the bridge dropped 2 feet and the cars are full of petroleum products. Awesome.

[bossy22]

@markusoff
Uzeloc: road closures around rail bridge failure... "each car could have 80,000 lbs of product" Product is flammable oil product.

[The Goon]

After everything else...terrible news.

[bossy22]

@markusoff
Burrell: we've inspected all city-owned bridges. CP bridge is a federal bridge. Outside scope of city's bridge.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by bossy22

@markusoff
Burrell: we've inspected all city-owned bridges. CP bridge is a federal bridge. Outside scope of city's bridge.

Thanks a lot Harper.



/sarcasm

[Nyah]

I picked a bad day to try and make it downtown from McKenzie Towne. Stuck on the bus, after going through a detour in the foothills industrial. On Memorial now and barely moving. They aren't letting traffic from Paigan onto NB Deerfoot.

[bossy22]

https://twitter.com/markusoff/status...411392/photo/1

[Nyah]

So... Now it looks like they've blocked WB Memorial over Deerfoot?

Edit: one lane getting through. Avoid WB Memorial if you're coming in from Foothills Ind.

Edit 2: They just opened it up again. Weird.

[Kavvy]

pic from news sources:

[Rathji]

Left shortly after 6 this morning on the 117 express bus, and actually got to work faster than I ever have before.

Apparently the Road King truck stop is being evacuated. I don't have any link, because Internet is down at work, but my Mom works a block or so away and has been advised that they may have to leave as well.

[Kavvy]

I think they are afraid of an explosion.

This rail goes under deerfoot, they have a 1 mile radius evacuation notice, aka a circle.

To me that doesn't sound like fear of a leak or trying to repair a bridge, that sounds like an explosion radius.

[LockedOut]

Hard to tell from the overhead if there is a pillar at the point of failure of the bridge. If there is it looks like the pillar has failed.

Edit: Doesn't look like there is a pillar there.