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A picture from the morning after a CSX train derailed in Mount Carbon, Virginia resulting in large fires in February 2015. (Wikipedia photo: Credit: Colombian)
Debate over railway safety rules increases
Published: Wed, 2015-02-25 10:00-
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Tank cars of newer style derailed
Pair of recent oil train derailments and fires involving upgraded tank cars has raised fresh questions in Canada about the safety of moving crude by rail.
Trains hauling oil crashed and caught fire in Northern Ontario and West Virginia in the beginning of February this year. In both cases, the railways said the tank cars were the newer style, known as CPC-1232, with thicker skins and shielding over valves designed to prevent spills and fires in a derailment.
Emergency crews and environmental officials are responding to a train derailment in West Virginia that sent at least one tanker containing crude oil into a river and also caused a nearby house to catch fire. (Feb. 16)
Requiring oil shippers to use the upgraded models and phasing out the older, more spill-prone tank cars by early 2017 is a central part of Ottawa’s response to the 2013 explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Que. that killed 47 people.
Source: Transportation Safety Board of Canada
Av Markku Björkman
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