Canada Road & Rail Transport - Placarded Railway Vehicles

A railway vehicle that contains dangerous goods for which a placard is required to be displayed should not be located next to any of the following kinds of railway vehicles:

• An operating engine or an engine tender (unless all the railway vehicles in the train, other than engines, tenders and cabooses, have placards displayed on them)
• An occupied railway vehicle (unless all the other railway vehicles in the train, other than engines, tenders and cabooses, are occupied or have placards displayed on them)
• A railway vehicle that has a continual source of ignition
• Any open railway vehicle, when the lading protrudes beyond the railway vehicle and may shift during transport, or when the lading is higher than the top of the railway vehicle and may shift during transport

Specific rules also apply to Class 1.1 and 1.2 goods, and to a selection of other goods listed by UN number. These rules are detailed in the table shown in the TDG Regulations, Part 10, Section 10.6.

Dangerous goods that are being transported in railway vehicles in a train from the United States to Canada or from the United States through Canada to a place outside Canada may be located in the train in accordance with certain sections in 49 CFR (refer to Part 10, Section 10.6, for details).

To learn more about Transporting Dangerous Goods in Canada visit our Transporting Dangerous Good by Road & Rail Online Training web page.