From: jgrove24@hotmail.com   
      
   On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 1:50:53 PM UTC-6, conklin wrote:   
   >  wrote in message   
   > news:e5f0c92b-38a8-4edd-8df5-c6b46d577237@googlegroups.com...   
   > AFter the WVa accident, politicians are calling for tighter regulations on   
   > oil trains, especially those passing through populated areas.  They want   
   > more inspectors and stronger cars (the recent accident had the newest   
   > stronger design, and the train was moving slow).   
   >   
   > The Bakun oil has highly flammable gases that are more present in this oil   
   > than in other types of crudes.  It seems that the best solution would be to   
   > pre-process the oil to remove those gases.  Several months ago Trains   
   > Magazine did a detailed report on this.   
   >   
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   > There has been a new derailment of an oil train:   
   >   
   > Six cars of a 105-car train carrying crude oil derailed near Galena,   
   > Illinois, Thursday. Two cars caught fire and burned throughout the night.   
   > The train was carrying gassy oil from the Bakken Shale formation of North   
   > Dakota   
      
   My favorite BNSF story is when their Metra Conductor asked 2 black guys to sit   
   together in one row of seats. The car was half empty.   
      
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