Why we can’t seem to stop oil-filled rail cars from going boom

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By Heather SmithMar 27, 2014, 2:39 pm20 pts
People — including me — have written a good amount already about how trains have been exploding lately. In 2008, 9,500 carloads of crude oil were shipped by train in the U.S.; in 2012, that number was 234,000 carloads. The oil is packed into freight cars that date back to the 1960s and that normally carry…

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