Sentences with phrase «oil tank cars»

NEWCOMB — Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve appealed to Governor Andrew Cuomo to take action on a proposal by a private rail company to store hundreds of discarded oil tank cars on railroad tracks in the High Peaks.

«Inspections of crude oil tank cars and the rail tracks they travel along are essential to maintaining the public safety and protecting all New Yorkers,» Governor Cuomo said.

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada who has examined the increased use of oil trains, criticized railways in Canada and the United States for continuing to use older oil tank cars that he said were found to be unsafe more than 20 years ago.

In the northwest, the city of Bellingham passed a resolution calling on the federal government to impose tougher restrictions on oil tank cars bound for the nearby Cherry Point terminal.

Traffic backs up on N. Ferry St. as a train moving oil tank cars passes Friday Nov. 21, 2014, in Albany, NY.

Defects uncovered by inspectors included damaged hazardous material placards, thin brake shoes, inoperative lights, loose bolts on oil tank car heat shields, and missing guard rail bolts.

The inspection included Buffalo Southern Railroad in Hamburg and rail equipment inspectors examined 18 crude oil tank cars and found three non-critical defects, including end - of - car air hoses inadequate distances from rails and loose side safety rails.

The latest round of inspections took place last week and included mainline track and switches belonging to CSX and Canadian Pacific, CSX rail yards in Selkirk and Buffalo, a Canadian Pacific yard in Albany, and 445 crude oil tank cars.

All of the oil tank cars on the 109 - car train were CPC 1232 models, CSX said late Monday.