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 ...

The number of tank cars loaded with crude oil has risen 100-fold since 2006, according to the AAR, and there has been a similar surge in tank car originations of ethanol.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The oil and railroad industries are urging federal regulators to allow them as long as seven years to upgrade existing tank cars that transport highly volatile crude oil, a top ...

The fiery North Dakota derailment that burned for days early last month was the latest train crash to involve the flawed tank cars that the NTSB has been trying to get off the tracks for decades.

SEATTLE | 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 ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on Wednesday asked oil-by-rail leaders to create a tank car fit to carry the kinds of fuel involved in recent fiery derailments even as he ...

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 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 police and fire authorities in Jonesboro, Arkansas, emergency crews responded to Trinity Rail at around 7:30 p.m. after a worker fell into a tank.