Sentences with phrase «own tank cars»

'' We applaud the Minister of Transport's direction to eliminate the use of older tank cars,» said CEO E. Hunter Harrison in a statement late Wednesday.

Concerns about the safety of DOT - 111 tank cars date back to the mid-1990s, when the Transportation Safety Board recommended Transport Canada «take immediate action to further reduce the potential for the accidental release of the most toxic and volatile dangerous goods transported in Class 111A tank cars.»

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said about 5,000 of the most dangerous tank cars will be pulled off the tracks within a month, part of a series of measures in response to recommendations by the Transportation Safety Board in the wake of last summer's deadly derailment and fire in Lac Megantic, Que.

Since 2011, the rail industry has voluntarily adopted tougher safety standards for all new cars, but with literally only a handful of tank car - makers in North America and a huge boom in oil - by - rail shipments, demand far outstrips supply.

«We will review the full details of Transport Canada's regulations as soon as they are released and will work closely with both the railroad industry and the government to improve tank car safety.»

The U.S. - based Railway Supply Institute, whose members build more than 95 per cent of all North American tank cars and lease more than 70 per cent, said about 55,000 new tank cars will have been put in service between 2011 — when the new voluntary safety standards were adopted — and 2015.

Canadian Pacific (TSX: CP) said it welcomes the announcement about older DOT - 111 tank cars, but called the government's plan incomplete.

The Railway Association of Canada did not agree to an interview Wednesday but responded with a cautiously worded statement saying «a three - year phase - out for legacy tank cars marks an important step toward a fleet of cars that will enhance safety.»

There are more than 65,000 DOT - 111A tank cars of this type on the rails in Canada.

The only outstanding Jews in that field are the Blocks and Max Epstein of Chicago, the Blocks being largely interested in Inland Steel (see FORTUNE, December, 1935, «Republic Steel»), the No. 7 producer, and Mr. Epstein being Chairman of the Board of General American Transportation Corp., which manufactures tank cars.

Planned investments in loading terminals in Alberta and anticipated deliveries of specially designed tank cars could see an incremental 425,000 barrels per day of heavy oil railed to market by the end of 2014, it said in a report.

Moving viscous Canadian oil in tank cars used to be «more of a temporary fix» to transportation bottlenecks that earlier this year pushed prices for Western Canada Select to US$ 40 below the West Texas intermediate benchmark, he said.

This order, as amended, designated the number, dimensions, location, and manner of application for safety appliances on box cars, hopper cars, gondola cars, tank cars, flat cars, cabooses, and locomotives.

So you would end up shipping products by rail tank car, which is more likely to result in spills due to derailments, etc..

Television images suggested that the surviving tank cars on the Lac - Mégantic train were of the older design.

A 2009 report by the National Transportation Safety Board about a Canadian National derailment in Illinois called the design of those tank cars «inadequate» and found that it «made the cars subject to damage and catastrophic loss of hazardous materials.»

OTTAWA — The police said on Sunday that at least five people had died and 40 were missing after runaway railroad tank cars filled with oil derailed and exploded in a small Quebec town.

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.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada also recently released a new set of recommendations, related to its Lac - Megantic investigation, to improve oversight of dangerous routes and replace aging railway tank cars.

Department of Transportation rules imposed last year require companies to use stronger tank cars that are better able to withstand derailments.

But tens of thousands of outdated tank cars that are prone to split open during accidents remain in use.

The intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a more volatile form like gasoline.

Notably, train derailments and explosions involving tank cars have brought increased regulatory scrutiny.

In this environment, the railcar manufacturers should be kept busy retrofitting existing equipment and building new tank cars.

The mash is placed in 21,000 gallon fiberglass tanks were it is held until loaded in tanker trucks that deliver the mash to customers, or it is piped to a rail siding where the mash is loaded into large rail tank cars.

He filled eight railway tank cars with pure artesian drinking water, equipped them with multiple faucets and drinking cups on chains and strung them out along a track of their own.

Climb tank cars at Cantigny Park in Wheaton.

It features an engine, a three - dome tank car, a boxcar and a caboose with realistic details such as opening doors and metal handrails, as well as enough track pieces to make a 40» x 50» oval.

«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.

The company has brought 50 or so tank cars to the line over the past few weeks and put them in storage in the town of Minerva, a move that has drawn the ire of environmental groups and state agencies, which have questioned the legality of storage there.

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.

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Four environmental groups and two Adirondack towns have written Governor Andrew Cuomo urging him to take immediate action to stop the storage of empty tank cars on a rail line between North Creek and Newcomb.

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

The president of Saratoga & North Creek Railway is using music to defend his company's decision to store train tank cars on the company's line in the Adirondacks.

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.

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.

Schumer is calling on the Federal Railway Administration and Department of Transportation to require railroads to stop using or retrofit the standard DOT 111 tank car for moving petroleum products - he says those cars account for 69 percent of all tank cars.

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 tank car defects must be repaired before the car can return to service.

Adding new infrastructure at the terminals did not prove daunting; railroads delivered tank cars full of ethanol on time.

An oil train that derailed and erupted in flames in West Virginia on Monday was hauling newer model tank cars, not older versions widely criticized for being prone to puncture, the maker said

«We still have some fires on and near tank cars,» CSX railroad spokeswoman Melanie Cost said, without giving an exact number.

All the tank cars on the 109 - car train were newer models built after 2011 know as CPC 1232, the railroad said, and not the older DOT - 111 cars that have been criticized for being prone to puncture in accidents.

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

The main route out of the Bakken is via rail tank cars, but concerns about the safety of rail transport abound, ignited by July's fatal tank car disaster in Lac - Megantic, Quebec, that killed 47 and by a December crash in North Dakota that forced almost 2,400 people from their homes.

Now the oil facility loads 120,000 barrels of oil per day, about 168 tank cars» worth.

The railway said on Saturday that a bridge over a waterway had been damaged and that five tank cars had landed in the water.

I think it should read «recovery from Zone 4 training is quicker than other high - intensity training zones,» The first part about the 3 tank car sounds a lot like how my Prius works.

The Emergency Order also requires that all Class III crude oil shipments be designated as Packing Group I or II, thereby requiring the use of a more robust tank car.