oil trains

In 2013 an oil train derailment killed 47 people in Lac Megantic Quebec and leveled a downtown overnight.....The same Bakken Crude Oil passes through backyards in St. Cloud. WJON investigated: does St. Cloud have a plan for an oil train derailment?

Gov. Mark Dayton is giving railroad companies a tongue-lashing for resisting his tax plan to fund safety improvements.

An increase in rail shipments of oil crude from the northern Plains is being partly blamed for disruptions to an Amtrak route linking Chicago and the West Coast.