May 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, May 19, 2014) FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota farmers have lost nearly $67 million this year because of rail shipment delays, and stand to lose $100 million more if the situation on the rails continues. A North Dakota State University...
May 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Oregonian, May 18, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — As crude oil shipments have proliferated and raised safety concerns across the country, railroads have refused to acknowledge their routes and frequencies, details that anyone patient enough to stand trackside...
May 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2014) LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The fiery derailment in Virginia recently of a train transporting oil was the latest in a series of alarming accidents involving oil transport in North America in the last year. In 2013, more oil spilled...
May 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, May 16, 2014) PORTLAND, Maine — The company buying the assets of a railroad responsible for a fiery oil train derailment that claimed 47 lives in Quebec plans to resume oil shipments once track safety improvements are made, its top executive...
May 16, 2014 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: News & Advance, May 15, 2014) LYNCHBURG, Va. — Virginia’s secretaries of Transportation and of Public Safety and Homeland Security will co-chair the state’s Railroad Safety and Security Task Force established in the aftermath of the train derailment in...
May 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Bangor Daily News, May 15, 2014) BANGOR, Maine — As sale documents were being completed, the man taking over the former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway was at the Spectacular Events Center in Bangor on Thursday afternoon to share the new management’s...
May 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Detroit News, May 16, 2014) DETROIT, Mich. — The snow, ice and extreme chill may be gone, but automakers still are feeling the aftereffects of the harsh winter: For months, big delays in the nation’s rail network have forced them to park newly built cars and...
May 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek, May 16, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officials with the oil industry are citing new reports, which they funded, indicating that Bakken crude is no more flammable than other crudes and that oil train explosions aren’t the fault of the...
May 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, May 15, 2014) PORTLAND, Maine — The sale of the Maine-based railroad responsible for a deadly oil train derailment in Quebec is nearly final. Chapter 11 trustee Robert Keach said the $15.85 million sale of bankrupt Montreal, Maine and...
May 15, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, May 14, 2014) NEW YORK — In the northern U.S. Plains, where there are no commercially navigable rivers, the U.S. rail system long has served as the lone, dependable way for farms to move grain hundreds of miles to reach ports and sell around the...
