Generally, federal regulations require rail cars loaded with a Class 3 flammable liquid, such as crude oil, to be moved promptly within 48 hours. 49 C.F.R. §174.14.

The Department of Transportation banned about 3 percent of a fleet of railroad tank cars from carrying flammable crude oil Tuesday, according to the rail industry’s leading advocacy group ...

The change comes amid public concern about the safety of shipping crude by train. Since 2008, derailments of oil trains in the U.S. and Canada have seen the older 70,000-gallon tank cars break ...

The Gulf Gateway Terminal opened at the Port of New Orleans in May 2013 in order to receive shipments of crude oil by rail from Canadian and U.S. Locations and send it by barge to refineries. Such ...

Add tank-car makers to the list of U.S. industries bracing for the effects from the plunge in crude prices. While 2014’s record orders, including an all-time high 42,900 in the third quarter ...

Crude oil hauled by rail needs to be shipped in stronger tank cars and on safer routes, transportation investigators in the U.S. and Canada said following a series of accidents in North America.