Union Tank Car Company’s patent-pending, prototype “Tank Car of Tomorrow” TIH pressure tank car is nearing completion of its second year of accelerated field tests, “reliably equaling more than five ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration on Friday ordered rail tank-car owners to replace defective valves never approved for installation on thousands of tank cars, causing oil to spill from ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thousands of tank cars will probably be scrapped or redeployed as a result of recently proposed federal regulations to make cars hauling flammable liquids ...

CHEMICAL SHIPPERS are urging the federal government to rethink its plan to improve the safety of railroad tank cars that carry the most dangerous hazardous materials, including two chemicals blamed ...

Railroad tank cars carrying ethanol are stored in a Norfolk Southern rail yard in Alexandria, Va., surrounded by homes, schools and businesses, Jan. 13, 2014. The most common type of tank car used to ...

Transportation equipment supplier Greenbrier will design a new generation tank car for the transport of flammable crude oil and ethanol. The new Tank Car of the Future design is aimed to meet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Gorzelany is a veteran automotive journalist. Though the COVID-19 pandemic is officially behind us, its battle scars remain in ...

German roadster vs. British tank – there is a challenge we don’t see every day. Maybe this is why YouTubers urged one famous tank owner to put his armored vehicle on top of everything else. Eddie Hall ...

Crews were called to the scene of a railcar fire inside a Union Tank Car Company building at 401 Chestnut Ave. The fire forced a section of Chestnut Avenue near UPMC Altoona to close Tuesday afternoon ...