October 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Montreal Gazette, October 15, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than a dozen companies and business groups, urged by railroads, are warning regulators that cutting speeds to 40 miles an hour from 50 would have a cascading effect, delaying other trains sharing the...
October 14, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, October 12, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — BNSF Railway says it has increased the number of oil trains per week moving through Central Oregon. Full story: www.dailyjournal.net
October 14, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Bellingham Herald, October 11, 2014) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — BP Cherry Point has announced its rail terminal will no longer accept or unload any Bakken region crude oil from pre-2011 standard tank cars. By the first week in October, the facility had stopped...
October 14, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, October 10, 2014) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific and other main freight railroads are now required to join BNSF Railway in filing detailed weekly reports on shipping delays, as federal regulators attempt to cope with complaints from farmers...
October 14, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source MPR News, October 12, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — After months of complaints by farmers, grain shippers and others that lengthy railroad delays have been bad for business, another major industry is crying foul. Minnesota power companies, which don’t have...
October 9, 2014 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, October 8, 2014) NEW YORK — Canadian National Railway will resume service on a line in rural Saskatchewan on Wednesday after workers removed debris from a fiery train derailment that occurred a day earlier and led to the evacuation of a nearby...
October 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Sacramento Bee, October 8, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s two major railroad companies, Union Pacific and the BNSF Railway, went to federal court Tuesday to argue that neither California nor any other state can legally impose safety...
October 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, October 8, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As many as 60 trains a week carry large volumes of Bakken crude oil cross Pennsylvania, according to documents released Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency. That makes the...
October 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: New York Times, October 8, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — An energy boom that has created a sharp increase in rail freight traffic nationwide is causing major delays for Amtrak passenger trains and is holding up the transport of vital consumer and industrial goods,...
October 9, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, October 8, 2014) NEW YORK — Canadian crude exports to the United States topped 3 million barrels per day last week for the first time, suggesting delays to new export pipelines such as TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL were failing to check oil...
