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Texas attorney general orders release of oil train data
(Source: McClatchy News Service, February 21, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oil train records held by the Texas Department of Public Safety are not subject to exemption under state open records law, the state attorney general ruled this week, and must be released in full...
Maryland lawmakers call for crude oil risk assessment, more railroad transparency
(Source: Baltimore Sun, February 19, 2015) BALTIMORE, Md. — State lawmakers concerned about increasingly common rail shipments of crude oil through Maryland are calling for the state to conduct a full assessment of the risks and for railroads to be more transparent...
Rail boom: Upper Mississippi becomes crude corridor
(Source: Madison.com, February 23, 2015) MADISON, Wisc. — As U.S. railroads scramble to haul growing volumes of freight and North Dakota crude oil, they are expanding workforces and sinking record amounts of money into their networks. That translates into major...
Utah’s bill to regulate vans and shuttles for railroad crews draws fans and foes
(Source: Standard Examiner, February 23, 2015) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Legislation to give the Utah Department of Transportation oversight of companies entrusted with transporting railroad crews between jobs barely advanced to a third Senate reading with a 15-12 vote....
Virginia proposes $361,000 fine against CSX over 2014 Lynchburg derailment
(Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 23, 2015) RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia is proposing a $361,000 civil fine against the rail company CSX Transportation Inc. in the derailment of a crude-oil tanker car that ruptured and caught fire in the James River in Lynchburg...
Why cold weather wreaks havoc on trains
(Source: Wired, February 24, 2015) NEW YORK — When jammed with ice, mechanical switches can become unmovable. Overhead wires may snap. Amtrak’s electric lines “are like any piece of metal—when they get cold, they get shorter,” says Augustine Ubaldi, a railroad...
Thousands of gallons of oily-water mixture recovered from trenches along Kanawha River
(Source: Charleston Gazette, February 23, 2015) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Approximately 36,000 gallons of oily-water mixture had been recovered from containment trenches where the Kanawha River meets Armstrong Creek as of Monday morning, after a CSX oil train derailed in...
Why bitumen isn’t necessarily safer than Bakken
(Source: Railway Age, February 23, 2015) NEW YORK — The chain reaction fireballs that attended the Feb. 16, 2015 derailment of a CSX unit oil train in populated West Virginia probably blinded observers to the significance of the concurrent derailment and explosions of...
Feds start full-scale probe into CSX oil train derailment
(Source: The Register-Herald, February 23, 2015) MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — A week after a 109-car derailment of a CSX train at Powellton Hollow in Fayette County, two federal agencies announced Sunday that they are moving forward with a full-scale forensic investigation...
Feds predict up to 10 fuel-hauling train derailments a year
(Source: Associated Press, February 23, 2015) BILLINGS, Mont. — The federal government predicts that trains hauling crude oil or ethanol will derail an average of 10 times a year over the next two decades, causing more than $4 billion in damage and possibly killing...
