Oil Train Safety Megathread. Updated July 30, 2023

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17. De nada, but note that

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the thread's scope is not limited to coverage of derailments. I try to put all links to information about the shipment of oil by rail in one place. This includes regulatory actions and engineering developments related to oil by rail or crude by rail (CBR).

I intend this to be a resource for DU'ers and anyone else who stumbles across it during a web search. I concentrate on actual news sources rather than blogs run by special causes of any persuasion. I want facts and figures from authoritative sources. I'm not averse to using an industry trade group as a source, but any article so linked has to be something other than a lobbying puff piece. If it deals with an engineering solution to a problem, then it's okay to get linked.

The full disclosure in the OP is important. I own shares of rail stocks, but the safe shipment of hazardous materials outweighs any financial stake I have.

I hope you enjoy the thread. If you run across factual information regarding oil by rail that has escaped my notice, please let me know.

Best wishes.