April 9, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Star, April 7, 2014) TORONTO — Just how hard does this have to be? Does Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government really expect Canadians to have any tolerance for secret safety arrangements between Transport Canada and the...
April 8, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, April 6, 2014) LINCOLN, Neb. — The big railroads on this side of the continent are making more money than ever in what’s been called a renaissance for them, shipping unprecedented volumes of oil, along with ethanol, coal and...
April 8, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Star, April 4, 2014) TORONTO — One year before the Lac-Mégantic train disaster, Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway began running trains steered by a sole engineer to the small town — a bare-bones staffing arrangement that began after Transport...
April 8, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Hill, April 7, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the Senate committee that oversees transportation issues said Monday that oil companies are dragging their feet on providing data to regulators about the safety of freight trains that are used...
April 2, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Sacramento Bee, April 2, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Bay Area refinery’s plan to run up to 100 train cars of highly flammable crude oil daily through Sacramento is prompting a late push by area leaders to protect cities on the rail line. Full story:...
April 2, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Democrat & Chronicle, April 2, 2014) ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The nation’s booming oil production — particularly in North Dakota and Montana — has meant new life for New York’s aging railroad system. With oil output having outgrown pipeline capacity,...
April 1, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Forum, March 31, 2014) PERHAM, Minn. — Every day, as many as 10 oil trains a day leave North Dakota and six to eight travel through Minnesota. They pass through places like Perham, a town of 3,000 about 65 miles southeast of the Fargo-Moorhead area,...
March 31, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Canadian Press, March 29, 2014) OTTAWA — The Canada Transportation Agency has extended the operating license of the insolvent railway involved in last July’s deadly explosion in Lac-Mégantic, until June 1. The regulator says it is satisfied Montreal,...
March 31, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Star Tribune, March 29, 2014) WINTHROP, Minn. — Jim Brandt’s steel-toed boots treaded nimbly across the railroad ties as he scanned the track around him for loose bolts, unfastened clips, gaping switches — anything that could prove dangerous for massive...
March 31, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Journal News, March 28, 2014) NEW YORK — Federal agencies are stepping up their scrutiny of safety issues related to increased freight-rail shipments of crude oil from the booming Bakken Formation oil field in North Dakota and Montana. The National...
