April 22, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Pioneer Press, April 19, 2014) ST. PAUL, Minn. — The freight trains that pull into the Canadian Pacific rail yard by Pig’s Eye Lake could soon be longer than ever. But plans to extend each of the six tracks in the company’s rail yard...
April 22, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Billings Gazette, April 21, 2014) BILLINGS, Mont. — In one of the coldest winters in recent memory, the heating plant at the University of North Dakota was running out of coal. The trains that normally deliver a steady supply of Montana coal for the UND...
April 22, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, April 21, 2014) NEW YORK — U.S. railroads are obvious winners from the latest delay in the Keystone XL Pipeline approval, and some of the freight operators with the biggest growth in petroleum shipments look undervalued, according to an...
April 21, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, STB
(Source: Tri-State Neighbor, April 19, 2014) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — While fireworks were flying in Washington, D.C., at a hearing before the railroad-monitoring federal Surface Transportation Board (STB) over delays in shipping across the Upper Midwest, others in...
April 21, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: LaCrosse Tribune, April 19, 2014) LACROSSE, Wisc. — The prospect of more rail cars carrying crude oil and other flammable liquids through the region has prompted a public meeting Tuesday to air concerns about BNSF Railway Co.’s plans to add a second,...
April 21, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Sacramento Bee, April 17, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Pointing to the catastrophic derailment in Quebec of a train transporting oil and similar accidents, Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, has unveiled legislation to get emergency responders...
April 21, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, April 21, 2014) BISMARCK, N.D. — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is slated to come to the site of a fiery oil train derailment that happened in eastern North Dakota last December. Full story: Houston...
April 21, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Seattle Times, April 19, 2014) SEATTLE — Efforts to transform the Northwest into a fossil-fuel hub for North Dakota’s crude, Alberta’s oil sands and coal from the Rocky Mountains mean the risks of major spills and explosions in and around Washington...
April 21, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, April 18, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — The volume of oil hauled on railroads in Oregon increased last year to more than 11 million barrels — a dramatic increase from about 3 million barrels in 2012, reports to the state show. Not long ago,...
April 21, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Montreal Gazette, April 20, 2014) MONTREAL — Nine months after a runaway oil train derailed in Lac-Mégantic, killing 47 people and destroying a large chunk of the town, a plan for financially compensating disaster victims is taking shape. Full story:...
