February 23, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: West Virginia State Journal, February 22, 2015) MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — After weather issues delayed the investigation of the train derailment, federal investigators announced Sunday afternoon during a news conference they are able to now move forward. Full...
February 23, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Charleston Gazette, February 18, 2015) BOOMER, W.Va. — It’s rare a man can say he’s glad his wife is in the hospital, but it’s also not every day a train destroys his home. Full story: Charleston Gazette
February 23, 2015 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: MetroNews, February 19, 2015) FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. — A CSX train hauling Bakken crude oil was traveling well below the 50 mile per hour speed limit when 27 tanker cars derailed near Montgomery in Fayette County Monday, according to the acting head of the...
February 23, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, February 19, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators will examine whether pressurized gas played a role in the massive blast that followed the derailment of a train carrying crude oil through West Virginia this week, the U.S. Transportation...
February 23, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, February 19, 2015) NEW YORK — CSX has notified state officials of its plans to bypass the scene of a crude train derailment and continue delivering oil to a terminal on the Virginia coast, emergency management officials from Virginia and West...
February 23, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: West Virginia MetroNews, February 20, 2015) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The tanker fires were out Friday at the site of Monday’s CSX train derailment near Montgomery in Fayette County and almost all residents of Mount Carbon and Adena Village were being allowed to...
February 23, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: West Virginia MetroNews, February 22, 2015) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The investigation of what occurred during last week’s CSX train derailment in Fayette County continued with the removal of most of the Bakken crude oil from the 27 tanker cars, according to the...
February 19, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Washington Post, February 17, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In fact, the oil spill and fire on the banks of the Kanawha River was the latest occurrence of a type of accident that U.S. officials say is becoming distressingly common. Federal agencies are documenting...
February 19, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, February 18, 2015) MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — A CSX train that derailed about 30 miles southeast of Charleston, West Virginia, on Monday, causing explosions and fireballs, was carrying volatile Bakken crude oil from North Dakota’s shale fields...
February 19, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, February 18, 2015) NEW YORK — Video images of a fireball billowing from the wreckage of a derailed train hauling Bakken crude are adding to pressure on federal regulators to act on new safety standards for oil shipments. Full story: Philadelphia...
