Oil-Laden Freight Trains Delaying Amtrak, Commuter Trains Across U.S.

Tank cars roll through Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood on BNSF tracks.
Oil production is booming across North America, as new technologies make it possible to extract liquid crude oil from sources like the Bakken shale oil field in North Dakota and Montana, or Alberta’s tar sands. The ever-increasing volume of crude oil mined in remote Great Plains locations often [...]

Source: http://chi.streetsblog.org/2014/08/14/oil-laden-freight-trains-delaying-amtrak-commuter-trains-across-u-s/

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