On March 6, 2016, shortly before 9pm, Steinbach RCMP received a report from a CN Rail conductor advising he had passed a female who appeared to have rolled her snowmobile southeast of Marchand, Manitoba.
Police attended the area and obtained information from another snowmobile rider who advised the two riders had become separated on the trail around 8:30pm. Police immediately initiated a search on foot and snowmobile based on the information provided by the conductor and other rider.
RCMP liaised with CN rail who advised another train would be in the area an hour from the initial call at which time police would try to get a more exact location for the female.
RCMP report that at approximately 11:20pm CN dispatch advised they had located the female, who was uninjured, and transported her back to Sandilands.
