On Dec. 30, BNSF Railway executive chairman Matthew Rose told the Dallas Business Journal that his sprawling 32,000-mile railroad would move 1 million barrels of crude oil every day by the end of 2014, nearly a seventh the total amount that was produced in the United States i [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp called on the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to release information on its inspections of the rail where a train recently derailed in North Dakota. Noting that four derailments have occurred in the Casselton area in nine y [...]
OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific Jan. 8 announced that Joseph O’Connor and D. Lynn Kelley will assume new positions within the organization. O’Connor, currently vice president of purchasing, has been named vice president of labor relations. He will lead the organizatio [...]
Pursuant to Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) § 211.45, the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) administrator, Joseph C. Szabo, has determined that current conditions of extreme cold, ice, and severe winter weather in various parts of the United States con [...]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Jan. 6 called for an overhaul of old rail tank cars used to carry crude oil after a spate of explosive derailments over the past year. The New York Democrat joined a growing number of politicians concerned about the safety of transpor [...]
It’s freezing cold outside. Here are some tips from OSHA to keep you safe when you have to work outside in this extreme weather. https://www.osha.gov/as/opa/cold_weather_prep.html
PIERRE, S.D. – The company buying the west end of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad line will keep all parts of the track open, a company official said Friday. Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. announced Thursday it is selling the line to Genesee & Wyoming Inc. for [...]
Rail-safety advocates and members of Congress are calling for stricter tank-car safety standards in the wake of a major oil-by-rail accident this week, an appeal that took on new urgency Thursday with the release of a federal advisory that oil from North Dakota’s Bakken [...]
Canadian Pacific and Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announced Jan. 2 that they have executed an agreement pursuant to which CP will sell the west end of its Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern line to G&W for continued rail operations. The west end encompasses approximately 660 m [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. – Following a string of explosive accidents, federal officials say crude oil being shipped by rail from the Northern Plains across the U.S. and Canada may be more flammable than traditional forms of oil. A safety alert issued by the U.S. Department of Transpor [...]
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