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Proposed rules may send thousands of tank cars to an early retirement
Car owners might find a $60,000 rehab less expensive than a million dollar law suit when one of their cars explodes.
Think outside the box. Clean them out and use them to transport water to drought stricken southern California.
Think outside the box. Clean them out and use them to transport water to drought stricken southern California.
Think outside the box. Clean them out and use them to transport water to drought stricken southern California.
There is no need to scrap all of them. They can be added to displays of locomotives or cabooses.
Look for all the Historical Societies and Preservation Groups that could use a tank car in good condition.
Those cabooses on display across the USA and Canada in public and on private property could have a tank car set up next to them.
Once a hazmat car, ALWAYS a hazmat car, so what its $150,000, these billion dollar companies can afford them on top that they will get a tax break thru a loophole. So what.
Sounds like locking the barn door after the horse gets out. Phase them out, ok, but keep them until new cars can be built. Within a quick, but reasonable time… The Lac-M. crash was not a normal or (prob) an equipment failure accident. Should we re-build all airplanes because 1 crashed?
Mr Fox. Once a tank has been used for non food grade purposes it may not be used for a food grade product. (Like drinking water)
Why are three copies of the same reply showing here? Moderation is supposed to prevent that.
Adopt a tank car program might work. I might even have a place to store one.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands how the feds regulate. The petroleum industry and the rail industry got exactly what happens when you sit back and wait for the feds. Instead of a joint positive approach to dealing with the entire process, they get a federal too much, too fast, don’t put our jobs or pensions at risk “solution”.
This is just a political ploy to hasten construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
Any government mandates will be eventually passed on to Who? You guessed it, the consumer…at the gas pump…Duh???
Odd how little genuine concern about safety there is in both the article and the comments.
Don’t confuse a concern for safety with federal regulation. In virtually every arena, fed regulations are concerned with what has happened, not what might happen. In addition, they are almost entirely focused on a single element, not an integrated system approach. As I noted a joint rail/oil industry approach to resolving both identified and future safety issues is best dealt with by those who have an intimate, hands-on, daily knowledge of their respective industries. Regrettably that apparently hasn’t happened yet.