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.

FREEPORT -- A railroad tank car explosion at a BASF chemical plant in Freeport in 2002 that caused minor injuries to 28 people was caused when the hazardous wastes inside the car were overheated ...

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.

WASHINGTON -- After a string of train accidents in recent years, railroad tank cars carrying hazardous materials must be replaced, rebuilt stronger and travel at slower speeds over half of the ...

Union Tank Car Co. is adding repair services at its 40-acre El Dorado facility and plans to add 70 new jobs over the next few years.

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 ...

Sand Springs Fire Chief Mike Wood said firefighters closed a pressure valve left open on the tank car parked near a railroad crossing on Morrow Road after a vapor cloud was spotted at 8:40 a.m.

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 ...