Approximately one out of every four railroad freight cars in North America is a tank car, according to the Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts, 2019 Edition (p. 38). Each year, such cars ...

Risk Management in Practice DOT’s hazmat regulations require that tank car owners maintain a qualification and maintenance program that specifies where, when, how and what to inspect certain ...

A freeway in Southern California closed and houses were evacuated due to a chemical reaction inside a railroad tank car. Temperatures in the tank car reached 323 degrees.

Tank car manufacturers have built new DOT-111A cars to a higher standard since 2011, but the improvements haven’t caught up to tens of thousands of older cars.

PERRIS, Calif. — A section of a major Southern California freeway was shut down and 170 homes were under evacuation orders Friday as a chemical reaction inside a railroad tank car threatened to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A railroad tank car carrying turbine engine fuel derailed south of Denali National Park, but Alaska Railroad officials have not detected a spill. The car was in the middle ...

The tank car was parked on a spur off a main rail line along Interstate 215 in Riverside County, about 57 miles (92 kilometers) east of Los Angeles. County fire officials identified the chemical ...