1) "That’s because Philadelphia is at the center of a new industrial boom. Oil trains are becoming a common sight on tracks between North Dakota and Philadelphia. To get here, they travel through some densely populated areas – Chicago, Albany and New Jersey – which is raising some safety concerns.
Why? These shipments are coming on the same type of train that derailed in Lac- Mégantic, Quebec, last July, leaving 47 people dead and reducing the downtown to smoldering rubble."
2)“'Two or three years ago, very seldom you heard that companies were using rail cars. Everybody now is,' [Fadel Gheir, a senior analyst with the investment bank Oppenheimer] says. 'Also the sheer number went from a few hundred rail cars to tens of thousands of rail cars. We have not, to my knowledge, expanded the rail line too much. We have not really spent a lot of money on infrastructure.'”
