Four oil tanker cars, carrying Bakken crude oil, remained burning Wednesday after a fiery train derailment at 7:30 a.m. prompted the evacuation of a small Wells County town near the site of the blaze.

State and federal inspectors found four critical defects and 42 non-critical ones in the latest round of oil train and track inspections across New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo says the inspections of ...

ALICEVILLE, Ala. -- Environmental regulators promised an aggressive cleanup after a tanker train hauling 2.9 million gallons of crude oil derailed and burned in a west Alabama swamp in early November ...

Swinomish and BNSF have agreed that one train carrying crude oil may be operated across the reservation each day. The tribe's ...

The Bakken crude oil loaded onto 107 tanker train cars of the BNSF Railway at a transload station in the oil patch and crashed in Wells County should have met the state’s new safety standards that ...

MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. -- Oil cars were burning more than a day after a train carrying 3 million gallons of North Dakota crude derailed in a West Virginia snowstorm, shooting fireballs into the sky.

The year 2013 has ended on a worrying note for oil producers in North America's Bakken region, as a series of recent train incidents in both Canada and the U.S. have highlighted the hazards of moving ...

TORONTO, March 25 (Reuters) - Canadian National Railway Co will phase out its fleet of 183 older tank rail cars used to transport diesel fuel over the next four years, as it works to improve safety ...

(AP) A Quebec town devastated when a runaway oil tanker train ignited explosions and fires braced Monday for what authorities assured would be a rising death toll as fire crews tried to reach the ...

TORONTO, March 25 (Reuters) - Canadian National Railway Co said on Tuesday that it will phase out its fleet of 183 older tank rail cars used to transport diesel fuel over the next four years, part of ...