April 11, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, STB
(Source: Reuters, April 11, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Midwestern farmers and Amtrak passengers are among those being hurt by rail congestion caused in part by an energy boom that has spurred the massive movement of oil by rail, witnesses told the U.S. Surface...
April 10, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bangor Daily News, April 10, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing in 33 years of firefighting prepared Tim Pellerin for the inferno before him. The fire chief from Rangeley, Maine, had just arrived in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, last year in the early morning...
April 10, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, April 10, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Emergency response officials told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that big cities and small towns alike are unprepared for a disaster on the scale of an oil train derailment and fire last year...
April 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bismarck Tribune, April 8, 2014) BISMARCK, N.D. — Farmers are worried their crops will spoil before rail is able to catch up to shipping demands. Full story: Bismarck Tribune
April 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Capital Press Agriculture Weekly, April 8, 2014) SALEM, Ore. — A severe rail transportation backlog has placed downward pressure on U.S. grain prices, delayed commodity shipments and raised freight costs, industry experts say. Full story: Capital Press...
April 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bangor Daily News, April 8, 2014) RANGELEY, Maine — The town’s fire chief will discuss what he found as a first responder to a train disaster that wiped out the center of a Quebec town last summer, killing 47 people, when he testifies before a U.S. Senate...
April 9, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, April 8, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today released the agenda and list of panelists for the forum, Rail Safety: Transportation of Crude Oil and Ethanol, to be...
April 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Progressive Railroading, April 7, 2014) Sixteen U.S. senators on Friday sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Appropriations urging members to create a Safe Transportation of Energy Products Fund that would address existing and emerging safety issues...
April 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, April 8, 2014) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Just a few years ago, the region’s refineries were on life support, hurt by high prices of oil imported from foreign countries. Now, they’re humming again with the daily deliveries of domestic...
April 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Globe and Mail, April 7, 2014) OTTAWA — As Canada and the United States move to strengthen the rules for transporting crude oil by rail, there is mounting evidence that regulators are relying on tests that underestimate the risk of a fiery explosion...
