PAULSBORO — Four railroad tank cars have been dumped into the Mantua Creek and are leaking vinyl chloride after the train bridge collapsed at about 7 a.m. Ambulances are being sent to the ...

MIDDLETOWN — The periodic appearance of rusty railroad cars covered in graffiti in the downtown area gives visitors and motorists a negative impression of the city, Middletown officials say ...

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 ...

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 ...

Railroads hauled 25 times more tank cars in 2012 than they did in 2008, and the volume is continuing to rise this year. The nation’s tank car fleet includes 92,000 that haul flammable liquids.

So this spring, after months of review, the U.S. Transportation Department ruled that as many as 100,000 tank cars known as DOT-111s, used for shipping toxic or explosive material, have to be ...

A warning placard is displayed on a tank car carrying crude oil near a loading terminal in Trenton, N.D., in 2013. (Associated Press/2013) SEATTLE — Two environmental groups are asking the U.S ...

About eight months ago, some 50 CSX rail cars pulled into downtown Dunkirk, N.Y. They stopped right there, and they stayed there — through the rest of summer, into fall, and then through much of ...

Since April, a line of 237 tank cars on the Ann Arbor Railroad line that runs through Pittsfield Township and Saline has gradually grown, and in some areas it runs within 100 feet of schools ...

The two industries, at odds until recently over how best to prevent oil train collisions and fires, also want three years after that to upgrade newer tank cars manufactured since 2011, known as ...