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Inland Waterways
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CRUDE OIL TRANSPORT
Crude by Rail by the Numbers
No. of CBR trains in 2010: 287
No. of CBR trains in 2014: 5,110
Avg. capacity of CBR tank car: 700 barrels
Length of CBR unit train: 100 – 120 cars
No. of CBR derailment incidents in US with spillage in 2013: 3
No. of CBR derailment incidents in US with spillage in 2014: 3
Oil spillage from CBR trains in US in 2013: 28,000 barrels
Oil spillage from CBR trains in US in 2014: 1,740 barrels
On the Upper Mississippi River – near La Crosse, Wisconsin – empty cars go up and full cars come down to Louisiana re
