The U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) on Wednesday urged rail tank car owners and hazmat shippers of flammable liquids to stop using tank cars like some in a Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train ...

LOCKPORT, NY (WKBW) — There’s a growing concern about a so-called "bomb train" possibly coming to a rail yard in the City of Lockport. A "bomb train" is a reference used for tanker train cars ...

About 25,000 DOT-111 tank cars are still in use, according to the Association of American Railroads. That's a relatively small part of the North American tank car fleet of about 450,000.

Climate Why unsafe chemical tank cars remain on the rails after East Palestine Federal investigators want to speed up the removal of puncture-prone tank cars on trains, but face industry opposition.

The rail industry and regulators have been slow to respond. Safety measures have not kept pace with the rapid growth of the industry. It is not enough to keep reiterating that rail tank cars are ...

The RAIL Act that a bipartisan group of U.S. House of Representatives members from Ohio introduced in March to address rail safety calls for a May 1, 2028, deadline to replace the tank cars ...

In seconds, a runaway train turned a quiet Canadian town into a firestorm. The Lac-Mégantic inferno became one of the most shocking disasters in rail history. Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of ...

Montana Rail Link officials said the accident occurred about 4 a.m. when a rail car loaded with company scrap metal made low-speed contact with a stationary empty tank car coupled to 29 others.

Crude doesn't normally explode. But, according to Bloomberg, the Federal Railroad Administration is investigating whether chemicals used in fracking are corroding the inside of rail tank cars.

In 2022, 59% of all rail tank cars carrying Class 3 flammable liquids were built to the new DOT-117 specification or modified to meet the DOT-117R (retrofit) specification (see Figure 1 above), ...

According to the report issued Thursday, damage assessment inspections were completed Feb. 22 on the 11 hazardous materials tank cars that derailed, including the five cars carrying vinyl chloride.