March 27, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Forum, March 26, 2014) FARGO, N.D. — The grain elevators at Agassiz Valley Grain here are overflowing with corn and soybeans and waiting for trains to haul the grain away. Don’t bother checking a schedule, though. No one knows exactly when the...
March 25, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Platts, March 24, 2014) ORLANDO, Fla. — More conversions of California ethanol rail unloading terminals to crude service are unlikely, following Kinder Morgan’s switch of its Richmond, California, unloading facility, an analyst said Monday. Full...
March 25, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, March 24, 2014) ALBANY, N.Y. — New York officials asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to update a contingency plan for dealing with oil spills amid the rapid expansion of rail shipments of crude oil from North Dakota...
March 25, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Contra Costa Times, March 24, 2014) BERKELEY, Calif. — The tracks that carry Amtrak Capitol Corridor trains through about a dozen heavily populated East Bay and South Bay communities could become a rail superhighway for potentially explosive crude oil...
March 24, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Star Tribune, March 21, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Across the northern United States and Canada, commodities such as fuel, fertilizer and grain have been moving at a frustratingly slow pace on freight-clogged, heavily booked and winter-battered...
March 24, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Oregonian, March 23, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregonian spent a month looking at the Oregon Department of Transportation’s rail safety efforts, finding in a February investigation that the agency is unusually accommodating of the railroad...
March 24, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek, March 23, 2014) MONTREAL — Quebec police have finished and filed with authorities their investigation into the Lac-Megantic train disaster that killed 47 people and prompted backlash against the growing practice of transporting...
March 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Forum, March 19, 2014) ST. PAUL, Minn. — Plans to train first responders such as firefighters to battle oil disasters are gaining traction in the Minnesota Legislature. Full story: The Forum
March 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, March 19, 2014) BISMARCK, N.D. — Cleanup of an oil train derailment on the outskirts of a small southeastern North Dakota town “is all but complete,” a state health official said Wednesday. Full story: ABC...
March 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Portland Press Herald, March 20, 2014) PORTLAND, Maine — A New York investment firm’s purchase of the bankrupt Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway has been delayed, as Canadian regulators say they don’t have all the paperwork needed before they can...
