Dugald rail accident

A westbound Canadian National Railways (CN) train, the Minaki Campers’ Special, operating as Passenger Extra 6001 West, was a seasonal excursion service carrying vacationers from the Minaki region of Northwestern Ontario on the Monday evening of the Labour Day holiday weekend. It had been given orders at Malachi, Ontario, east of Winnipeg, to meet train No. 4, the eastbound Continental Limited, at Vivian. These orders were later changed, so the meeting point was relocated westward for a meet at Dugald, east of Winnipeg. These second orders had been received at Elma, Manitoba. The eastbound train was led by a CN U-1-d-class 4-8-2 steam locomotive numbered 6046. ==Collision and fire==

By the train order operation rules then in use, Extra 6001 would use the siding at the east switch of Dugald. By the air signal line, the train conductor reminded the engineer of the Dugald stop one or two miles beforehand and received the proper acknowledgement. at approximately . No fatalities occurred in the vacation train's two rear cars or on the Continental Limited. Both of the locomotives involved were rebuilt and repaired by CN after the wreck. ==Inquiry==

An inquiry blamed the crew of the vacationers' train for failing to obey orders. The investigation also determined that the crew's error had been precipitated by their seeing a "clear" signal, which implied that the track ahead was clear, and that the Continental Limited dimming of its headlamp while waiting in the station lessened its visibility to the oncoming vacation train. This resulted in the acquisition of modern rail cars and improved rules regarding operations on the line. ==In popular culture==

• "The Minaki Train Crash" is an episode about the Dugald rail accident from the documentary Disasters of the Century (2000), aired on the Canadian network History. ==See also==