CP Rail manager guilty in case of train left on B.C. mountainside without handbrakes

A CP Rail manager faces possible jail time for his role in illegally parking a freight train carrying explosive materials on a mountain slope above Revelstoke, B.C., without proper handbrakes..

Last week, a B.C. provincial court judge found Tim McClelland guilty of two charges of contravening an emergency directive from Transport Canada, a breach of the Railway Safety Act.

“On a balance of probabilities, Mr. McClelland did not exercise all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offences,” Judge Richard Hewson wrote.

Canadian Pacific Railway and former CP superintendent Mark Jackson were acquitted of the same charges.

McClelland was