Before the shipping container, freight of every variety had to be loaded by hand onto ships and rail cars and trucks — a messy process that was slow, dangerous and expensive.

But oil capacity in pipelines is dwindling, with rail emerging as a popular means of moving crude oil. Between 2010 and 2014, oil by rail topped almost 1 million barrels a day , which represented ...

Two weeks later, on Jan. 13, the shoes were still in the container, hurtling eastward on a BNSF train. The train was passing through a sparsely populated region of northern Arizona when ...

But oil capacity in pipelines is dwindling, with rail emerging as a popular means of moving crude oil. Between 2010 and 2014, oil by rail topped almost 1 million barrels a day , which represented ...

The South Western Railway ’s (SWR) Bengaluru division is considering the operation of double-stack dwarf container (DSDC) trains, a first for the region. To facilitate this change, SWR has ...

Coal shipments dropped 3.4%, oil and oil products 5.8%, and container traffic 6.2%. Transport of building materials fell 20.7%, ferrous metals 16%, industrial raw materials 19.2%, and grain ...

A train in Ayer, Massachusetts, was stopped on the tracks on March 23 when five cars fell over. The containers were full of trash and recycling, but all were sealed.

Most of the tall shipping containers that the train was hauling remained intact. California. Pipeline operators to plead no contest in Orange County oil spill and pay nearly $5 million.

U.S. rail imports of Canadian crude have fallen sharply in recent years, averaging around 55,000 barrels per day in May, U.S. Energy Information Administration data showed, the lowest since the ...

Before this month, train safety in general, not to mention specifically when it comes to the prospect of 35, two-mile-long trains loaded with crude oil traveling through the Grand Valley ...

The BNSF train was headed toward Burlington after leaving an oil refinery when both locomotives came off the tracks a few minutes after midnight, said Ecology spokesperson Scarlet Tang, adding ...

How deregulation and private equity have gutted the U.S. freight rail system—and with it, the promise of America’s industrial renewal.