February 24, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(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...
February 24, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(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...
February 24, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(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...
February 24, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(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...
February 24, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(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...
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, 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...
