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News | Feb 25, 2013 | 3:11

'Via crash could have been avoided'

One year ago, a deadly high-speed Via Rail train derailment in Burlington, Ont., might have been prevented had CN heeded warnings and removed an 'obsolete' crossover, a former CN Rail project engineer says.

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