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A long line of rail cars containing oil sit on tracks south of Seattle, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. In a report to the Seattle City Council, city emergency planners say more must be done to lower the risk of a possible oil train accident and improve the city's ability to respond. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Report: More needed to improve oil train safety

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

In this May 22, 2014, photo, empty train cars, front, sit in a yard after having their loads of coal unloaded at Norfolk Southern's Lamberts Point coal terminal in Norfolk, Va. As the Obama administration weans the U.S. off dirty fuels blamed for global warming, energy companies have been sending more of America’s unwanted energy leftovers to other parts of the world. It’s a global shell game on fossil fuels that at the very least makes the U.S. appear to be making more progress on global warming than it actually is, because it shifts some of the pollution, and the burden for cleaning it up, onto another country’s balance sheet. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Montana coal railroad told to turn over documents

By MATHEW BROWN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2011 file photo, Amtrak's Empire Builder rounds a turn near East Glacier Park, Mont. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it made a mistake giving active railroads too much discretion on what can be built on 200-foot-wide rights-of-way crossing thousands of miles of public land in 11 western states. (AP Photo/Flathead Beacon, Justin Franz, File)

$12.5M to repair Amtrak route in Colorado, Kansas

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In this photo taken on Sept. 18, 2011, Amtrak's Empire Builder rounds a turn near East Glacier Park, Mont. Extreme freight congestion in the northern plains, particularly in North Dakota's Bakken region, has resulted in major delays for Amtrak's passenger service between Chicago and Seattle and Portland. Five years after the Empire Builder had some of Amtrak's best on-time performance rates, even outpacing Amtrak's high-speed Acela train between Boston and Washington, delays of three to five hours are now commonplace. (AP Photo/Flathead Beacon, Justin Franz)

Amtrak’s Empire Builder struggles in freight boom

By JUSTIN FRANZ - Associated Press

Railway upgrade both bad and good for Ross

By LAUREN DONOVAN - Associated Press

OSHA orders BNSF to reinstate 2 workers, back pay

By AMY BETH HANSON - Associated Press

Killing reported at Oregon railroad workplace

By STEVEN DUBOIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2013, file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. State Environmental Health Chief Dave Glatt says cleanup after the BNSF train derailed and caught fire in the small southeastern North Dakota town &quot;is all but complete.&quot; Federal investigators determined that 400,000 gallons of oil was lost in the derailment. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)

North Dakota oil train crash cleanup almost done

By JAMES MacPHERSON - Associated Press

Judge in Seattle allows coal train case to proceed

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

Oil trains numbers in north Idaho likely to rise

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Brainerd snowmobiler dies in crash with train

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Plains oil shipments disrupting Amtrak trains

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Wash. passenger-rail director apologizes for delay

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Tracks reopened after derailment west of Minot

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FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. Former North Dakota governor and Casselton native George Sinner wants new regulations placed upon railroads that transport crude oil from the state. Sinner says the derailment of tanker cars and ensuing fire outside Casselton shows what he calls a &quot;ridiculous threat&quot; to communities across the United States. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)

NTSB: 400,000 gallons of oil lost in ND derailment

By JAMES MacPHERSON - Associated Press