May 4, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 1, 2015) SEATTLE, Wash. — The U.S. Department of Transportation released long awaited safety rules for oil trains on May 1, with delayed standards for safer tank cars and no requirement that the fuel inside be processed to...
May 4, 2015 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Politico, May 1, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration imposed tougher safety regulations Friday for trains carrying crude oil, responding to growing alarm about a series of fiery derailments that killed dozens of people in a small Canadian town...
May 1, 2015 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, April 27, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The engineer and conductor on a BNSF oil train that derailed in North Dakota in December 2013 had seconds to escape their locomotive before it was engulfed by fire, according to interview transcripts...
May 1, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, April 30, 2015) NEW YORK — Tougher Canadian and U.S. joint standards for rail tanker cars to be unveiled Friday will stop short of harmonizing train brake rules, a government official said. Instead, each country has agreed to set train braking...
May 1, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, April 30, 2015) NEW YORK — An oil train safety plan for the United States and Canada to be announced on Friday will include an unexpected mandate on the rail industry to adopt an advanced braking system, industry sources familiar with the rules said....
May 1, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, May 1, 2015) OTTAWA — Canada’s transport minister will be in Washington on Friday for a joint announcement with her U.S. counterpart aimed at harmonizing safety regulations on shipping crude oil by rail, a politically sensitive issue on both sides of...
April 30, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: News & Advance, April 30, 2015) MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — Derailments and subsequent tanker explosions are part of a growing trend of oil-by-rail accidents raising alarms across North America. The debate — focused on improving rail cars, maintaining track...
April 30, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: News & Advance, April 30, 2015) LYNCHBURG, Va. — CSX was planning to replace a section of its Lynchburg track after a high-tech inspection discovered a defect one day before the downtown derailment, according to a state official. Full story: News &...
April 30, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Globe and Mail, April 29, 2015) TORONTO — Canada’s Transport Minister Lisa Raitt is expected to travel to Washington on Friday to address plans for aligning rail safety regulations with the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, part of a wider push in both...
April 29, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Biofuels Digest, April 23, 2015) CHICAGO — In Illinois, Aventine Renewable Energy announced its first BNSF unit-train shipment of ethanol produced at its two ethanol facilities in Aurora, Nebraska. On April 19 Aventine’s first unit train pulled out of Aurora...
