Maine train engineer sues Canadian Pacific after he was nearly impaled in derailment

Maine train engineer sues Canadian Pacific after he was nearly impaled in derailment

A train engineer is suing Canadian Pacific Railway, saying the company should have known there was a high risk that tracks would be washed out before a train derailment in rural Maine nearly three years ago. Louis Meyers of Dover-Foxcroft filed a lawsuit against Canadian Pacific on Tuesday in U.S. District Court of Maine in Bangor. The locomotive engineer alleges the company is federally liable and was negligent, in part, because it failed to im…