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stouffville suntribune thursday jan 29 2004 17 staff photobill roberts a 120metre stretch of cn railway line was torn up when a canadian national freight train jumped the track at aurora road and warden avenue in whitchurchstouffville saturday cause of derailment unknown by joan ransberry staff writer transportation officials con tinue to try to pin down what caused a canadian national freight train to jump the track derailing 19 cars at aurora road and warden avenue in whitchurchstouffville saturday night two crew members escaped injury while a 120metre stretch of cn railway line was torn up in the derailment which happened on a main line running from toronto and western canada heavy equipment was expected to arrive at the scene today to haul away the tanker cars that were derailed harvey preston was notified late saturday night all 19 cars had landed on his 17acre farm i was born on this farm mr preston 80 said never experi enced anything like this before a cn police officer turned up at the door and told me the train was off the track cars were lying everywhere cn will talk to me as long as i know what questions to ask the train derailment posed a particular problem for 14 head of beef cattle with the work crew busy attending the massive cleanup mr preston was forced to keep the cattle in his barn while arrangements were made to have cm string a fence around his bam to contain the cattle the cattle are used to going in and out they cn said theyd put the fence up mr preston said because the prestons live so close to the accident scene the main concern was the possibility of a chemical spill my son asked about the chemicals mr preston said we were assured it a benzinetype of chemical was all right while cn was able to resume rail service on the track early sunday evening transportation officials are still trying to piece together what caused the derail ment were looking at all aspects cn spokesperson ian thomson said were looking at the weath er it was clear and cold then again this is canada its often clear- arid cold were examining the equipment and the data recordings the track and were interviewing the crew three of the damaged cars were carrying about 40 motor vehicles all the vehicles have been written off the rest of the rail cars were empty although seven tankers contained benzine residue a flammable material there was no fire no leakage and since it was a good distance away from the urban area of whitchurchstouffville there was no need for an area evacua tion mr thomson stressed but people living in the immediate area were very very cooperative mr thomson said while at the scene whitchurchstouffville mayor sue sherban said she advised cn officials to go door to door on warden avenue and explain to the residents what was taking place the situation in whitchurch- stouffville could have been far worse mrs sherban said point ing out there have been two other train derailments in neigh bouring communities in the past two weeks jan 14 a 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