NEW YORK - The oil-laden train that derailed and exploded in a small Canadian town on Saturday, possibly killing as many as 50 people, included a class of railcar whose vulnerability to leaks and ...

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A top oil industry official says the oil and railroad industries are urging federal regulators to allow them as long as seven years to retrofit existing tank cars that transport highly volatile crude ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rail tank cars being used to ship crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken region are an “unacceptable public risk,” and even cars voluntarily upgraded by the industry may not be ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Oil tank cars like those that ruptured in a train derailment in rural West Virginia on Feb. 16, sending a massive fireball into the sky ...

LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Most crude oil being transported by rail in the United States and Canada is moving in tank cars that will rupture and catch fire if the train derails, according to accident ...

NEW YORK/CALGARY (Reuters) - BNSF Railroad, the Warren Buffett-owned company that has benefited most from the North Dakota shale boom, has told some customers that they cannot add new oil tank-cars to ...

When a train carrying crude oil derailed in the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic in 2013, the results were catastrophic: The derailment and oil spill triggered explosions and fires that destroyed half of ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- An inspection of crude oil tank cars and rails traveling through New York State has found 93 defects so far, and an accident could be catastrophic. Just weeks after Eyewitness News ...

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., asked President Barack Obama on Monday to use his executive power to make immediate improvements to the safety of tank cars carrying crude oil. In a letter to the ...