Chicago at heart of crude oil shipments; new federal data show 437,000 barrels daily from Bakken

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-oil-train-new-data-met-20150403-story.html#page=1

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The records show that as many as 30 trains a week travel through Kane, DuPage and Cook counties on the BNSF Railway. The BNSF tracks run through suburbs from Aurora and Naperville to Cicero and into Chicago.

Canadian National Railway reported it runs five to seven crude oil trains a week through Will, Cook and DuPage counties. The CN says those trains originate on the BNSF.

An average of four Canadian Pacific crude oil trains pass through Lake, Cook and DuPage counties weekly, the railroad said. The Union Pacific reported up to two trains a week through Cook and Will counties.

[CMStPnP]

What are you worried about Mrs O'Leary and her cow have long since passed on.

[narig01]

36 to 40 trains a week. Or 5 or 6 a day. How many trains run thru Chicago a day? How many if those trains carry regulated hazardous materials. In the overall scheme of things not a lot. Of course revenue counts. The goal is zero problems. That would be nice. No publicly and everyone forgets you. I am jot sure what to say. Rgds IGN

[trackrat888]

Should not Exxon,Sunoco and BP pony up the Billion or So for CREATE now that they need it? They would invest in a Pipeline so investing in a Master Limited Partnership would be in there best instrest.

[beaulieu]

Oil train movements are almost certainly lower now than the figures provided by the EIA. Lower speeds on the BNSF will raise  costs for the companies shipping the Oil, equipment cycle times will lengthen. The need to replace the remaining DOT-111s and quite possibly the newer 1232s. Oil train movements to the Gulf Coast states have fallen to slightly more than one train per day due to a glut in that region of Light Sweet Crude. It is quite possible that there will be minimal movement of Bakken Crude east from North Dakota by Rail in as little as three years. Rail will be still viable to the West Coast.

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trackrat888

Should not Exxon,Sunoco and BP pony up the Billion or So for CREATE now that they need it? They would invest in a Pipeline so investing in a Master Limited Partnership would be in there best instrest.

No.  And I don't think they need you to say what their "Best Interest" is.  Don't tell others how to best invest their own money.

The oil shippers pay their freight charges like everyone else.  

 

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narig01

No publicly and everyone forgets you. I am jot sure what to say.

You have an iPhone, don't you.