January 8, 2015 | Headlines, KCS, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, January 7, 2015_ WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Dec. 29 letter to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Kansas City Southern wrote that the state “should not disclose information to individuals that creates the potential for investment activity...
January 8, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 6, 2015) MONTREAL — Volatility in energy prices is expected to be a “wild card” for Canadian railways in the long term, but crude-by-rail volumes should continue to grow, albeit more slowly, in 2015, an industry analyst...
January 8, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Billings Gazette, January 7, 2015) BILLINGS, Mont. — Oil production seems poised to decline. The number of active drilling rigs in North Dakota has fallen by 14 in the last three weeks, according to the Bismarck Tribune. The price per barrel for oil hit a...
January 8, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bismarck Tribune, January 6, 2015) BISMARCK, N.D. — The police chief in Berthold, a small oil patch town west of Minot, has new marching orders from city hall: Ticket the train engineer the next time a BNSF Railway train blocks both crossings in town for more...
January 6, 2015 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: QMI Agency, January 5, 2015) MONTREAL — Lawyers and accountants have pocketed millions in fees following Canada’s deadliest train blast while relatives of the 47 killed haven’t received a penny yet, QMI Agency has learned. Full story: Toronto...
January 5, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, January 2, 2015) OMAHA, Neb. — The stunning collapse in oil prices over the past several months won’t derail the railroads’ profit engine even if it does slow the tremendous growth in crude shipments seen in recent years Full...
January 5, 2015 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(CBS News, January 3, 2015) NEW YORK — In a news release Friday, the NTSB said a green LED light was so bright it out-shined the old-fashioned, incandescent red stoplight nearby. The engineer accelerated, plowing into an oncoming train. The NTSB now wants all...
January 2, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, December 31, 2014) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — In a series of stories, McClatchy has detailed how government and industry are playing catch-up to long-overdue safety improvements, from redesigning the tank cars that carry the oil to rebuilding...
January 2, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, January 1, 2015) AURORA, Ill. — Local officials have very little jurisdiction over rail transportation, and some have felt powerless as a tide of domestically produced oil has begun running through their communities by rail. But that...
January 2, 2015 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Desmog Blog, January 1, 2015) NEW YORK — Oil trains will be back in Lac-Megantic by 2016, running on the same route as always. Residents had proposed rerouting the tracks around the town but that would have cost Fortress Investment Group money they weren’t...
