From: jgrove24@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 10:59:14 PM UTC-6, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > The freight railroads were 'drowning' in oil from the west going to   
   > refineries in the east.  There were problems with tank cars catching   
   > fire, and pressure to use much sturdier equipment.   
   >   
   > However, the oil boom may have ceased, and oil is now cheap.  Has   
   > this impacted the freight traffic?   
      
   My own observation is that the BNSF line has fewer oil trains parked in the   
   yards theses days around Chicago. I guess cheap Saudi oil is easier to deliver   
   than the fracked Dakota stuff.   
      
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