The McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that two loaded and two empty crude oil trains operate daily over Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor in Maryland and Delaware, according a document submitted by Amtrak in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Last month, Norfolk Southern, the freight railroad that operates the crude oil trains, went to court in Maryland to block the state Department of the Environment from making the same information available to McClatchy and the Associated Press.
The trains are bound for the Delaware City Refinery and pass through a rail yard in Newark before being dispatched to the refinery in Delaware City;
The release of the information was also barred in Delaware to all but emergency response agencies. Security concerns were cited.
The Amtrak document contains some details of Norfolk Southern’s crude oil train operations in Pennsylvania. That state last month denied requests from McClatchy and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to provide information about the shipments.
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