When the railroad opened in 1910 the route connected LaValle with Ironton and Cazenovia. According to Shrake’s article, by 1916, a total of 773 freight cars were shipped by rail annually ...

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 ...

There are 70 cars all together - 15 are on the track. >> It's in its beginning stages, there will be a big yard put in the back with a turntable to move equipment and perhaps run excursions from ...

Railroads need to repair tracks, upgrade tank cars to avoid disaster in hazardous fuel shipments, according to a National Academies report Wednesday.

Two environmental groups are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to immediately ban shipments of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars, citing recent explosive oil train wrecks ...

There are three broad railroad tank car markets – chemicals, crude oil and selected agricultural commodities. Across North America, the number of tank cars in the fleet increased from ~300,000 ...

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 ...

BELPRE — For several weeks, there has been a line of tank cars lined up on a track belonging to the Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad in Belpre, and people have been complaining about it.

Railroad tank cars damaged when an oil train derailed last week in Custer were moved Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 29, one week after 10 cars jumped the tracks and several burst into flames. A crane on ...