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BNSF Train Loaded With Bakken Crude Derails, Burns in Illinois

A freight train operated by the BNSF Railway Co. and loaded with crude oil from the Bakken Shale derailed and caught fire near Galena, IL, on Thursday. There were no injuries.

March 6, 2015

North Dakota Oil Train Derailment: Fires but No Injuries

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) had a team of investigators on the scene Tuesday near Casselton, ND, where a BNSF train carrying crude oil smashed into another train that had derailed earlier, setting off explosions and fires in nine tanker cars.

December 31, 2013
Rail Schleps More Than Crude Across Country

Rail Schleps More Than Crude Across Country

While rail transport of crude oil is getting a lot of attention these days, railroads are playing a bigger part in the U.S. domestic energy expansion, as BNSF Railway Co.’s $4.3 billion capital budget for 2013 indicates.

August 23, 2013

Rail Schleps More Than Crude Across Country

While rail transport of crude oil is getting a lot of attention these days, railroads are playing a bigger part in the U.S. domestic energy expansion, as BNSF Railway Co.’s $4.3 billion capital budget for 2013 indicates.

August 22, 2013
BNSF Chief: More than Ever, Crude Rides the Rails

BNSF Chief: More than Ever, Crude Rides the Rails

The shale revolution is stimulating a large-scale infrastructure buildout and record levels of capital spending — in the railroad industry.

August 15, 2013