USA - Three Missing After Train Collision Triggers Massive Fireball Three crew members were missing Tuesday and a fourth was injured Tuesday after a head-on train collision in the Texas Panhandle ignited a massive fireball, and forced the evacuation of…
Canada to phase out older crude oil tanker cars early due to explosion risk Canada will take older crude tanker cars out of service much earlier than originally planned, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said on July 26. Accident investigators have…
RIPLEY, N.Y. (AP) — Crews are working to contain a leak on an ethanol tanker that was among 16 cars on a freight train that derailed in far southwestern New York and forced the evacuation of several homes. A spokesman…
WATERTOWN, Wis. (AP) — A Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed Sunday, spilling less than 1,000 gallons of crude oil and prompting evacuations in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state. Thirteen cars of…
Seven ethanol tanker cars derailed and at least one caught fire Saturday in southeastern South Dakota, according to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. The company said no one was hurt. The 98-car train carrying ethanol derailed about 6:15 a.m. in…
Norfolk Southern says more than 20,000 gallons of lube oil spilled after a freight train was struck from behind by another train traveling in the same direction in western Virginia. Norfolk Southern spokeswoman Susan Terpay says the oil spilled from…
Canadian prosecutors on Monday levied criminal charges against a now-defunct railroad company and six former employees over a 2013 explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec. Investigators previously determined that rail operators didn't sufficiently apply brakes to a train carrying…
A group of oil firms have agreed to establish a $345 million fund for victims of a 2013 oil train wreck in Quebec that killed 47 people and destroyed dozens of buildings. A group including Royal Dutch Shell, Marathon Oil, ConocoPhillips, Irving Oil…
A train carrying highly volatile crude oil derailed and erupted into flames on Wednesday morning, forcing the evacuation of a small town in North Dakota, according to local and federal officials. It was at least the sixth oil train accident…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Legislature passed a measure Friday to improve the safety of oil transportation amid a sharp increase in the number of oil-carrying freight trains in the state. Lawmakers reached a compromise on the last…
