Canada’s Number One Suburban Newspaper October 16 1985 FN News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 52 pages 25¢ AFTERMATH OF Friday night’s eight-car derailment near North Vancouver's Lynan- wood Hotel, as one of the CN methanol tankers lies beached on the switchizg yard’s concerns to JHE DERAILMENT of eight Canadian National Railway tank cars carrying methanol near the Lynnwoed Inn Friday night has prompted District Mayor Marilyn Baker to call for a hazardous cargo summit with the railway. Baker said Tuesday she will meet with CN officials within the next two weeks, as soon as investigations into the accident are completed. “The North Shore is as concerned as any other area is with the shipping of haz- ardous commodities," Baker said. “However, as far as the municipality having any say in what is transported when, we much coan- through it and dont have that trol.” The district mayor said she would sit down with CN Tepresentalives to recap ex- actly what happened in the latest derailment, why it happened, and what can be done to make sure it does not happen again. Friday's derailment occur- red at 8:20 p.m. approximate- ly 500 metres eat of the Lynn- wood Inn. CN officials suid Tuesday the eight cars carry- ing methanol were part of a 6i-car train. All derailed cars have since been removed and the section of track destroyed is expected to be repaired by Wednesday. Norm Rolin, CN train master for the Vancouver aren, said there were no in- juries in the accident and no SUCCESS PAGE 29 Centre benefits seniors PAGE 37 . Srwickadl NEWS photo Mike Watelisid gravel bed. The tankers had to be emptied before rerailing. No injuries and no methazol feakage resulted from the accident. leakage from any of the tank cars. Methanol, he explain- ed, is wood alcohol. “Te's really not that dan- gerous,’’ Rolin said. ‘We haul it through there every day, Every precaution 1s taken and our accident ratio is minimal.** District Fire Chief Archie Steacy said Tuesday the decision against evacuating the Lynnwood was amade after it was confirmed that no methanol was leaking. “We determined that no one outside a S00-metre ra- dius was in danger," Stetcy said, “The management of the Lynnwood was informed of the situation; we did not want (oO cause unnecessary panic. Overall f think we were reatly fortunate. The situation could have been reatly nasty if there had been leakaye.”’ Lynnwood Ken Hutchinson concern over the incident was omaisnmabk Cis nota matter of pot being concern- ed, but 1 don’t think it's a good idea to overreact. Hf this kind of thing happened more often, sure we'd be Hotel owner said his rs M Ra concerned.” North Vancouver City Fire Chief Ralph Meldrum said CN ‘tmust inform fire departments of all derailments, whether they involve hazardous cargoes or not, and whether CN con- siders derailments potentially dangerous or not.”” Approximately 900 CN and Canadian Pacific tank cars oper year cerry 10 varieties of hazardous chem- icals, from chlorine to methanol to liquid) propane gas, through North Shore freizht yards.