Sentence examples for train shipments from inspiring English sources

The group erected an 18ft metal tripod over railway tracks in Everett, Washington, in order to block train shipments of crude oil and coal.

While future freight equipment weights will be limited by economics associated with railway infrastructure, maintenance, and renewal, it is most likely that train shipments and axle loads will increase.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - New regulations to cap vapor pressure of North Dakota crude fail to account for how it behaves in transit, according to industry experts, raising doubts about whether the state's much-anticipated rules will make oil train shipments safer.

Rapid proliferation of oil-by-train shipments started more than three years ago to get oil to markets as pipeline infrastructure lagged booming production in remote places such as North Dakota, as well as Canada's oil sands.

Those extremists use the Pankisi Gorge for transit, training and shipments of arms and financing.

At that time in 1952, I was a buck private in the U.S. Army, spending a couple of months in a Manhattan public information office between basic training and shipment overseas.

Rather than expand U.S. involvement through additional arms shipments, training of insurgents, and creation of a no-fly zone, Washington should step back.

(AP) WEST VALLEY: NUCLEAR SHIPMENT PLANNED A train will carry a large shipment of nuclear waste from western New York through 10 states to Idaho over the summer as part of the $1.6 billion cleanup of the West Valley Demonstration Project.

Or he could reject the XL pipeline on two national security grounds: its contribution to global warming and the dangers of leaks, explosions; and he could stop the virtual pipeline of dangerous tar sands and fracked oil shipments by train and waterway by insisting immediately on safe puncture-proof tanks.

The Quebec disaster is the fourth freight train accident in Canada this year involving crude oil shipments, the Associated Press reported.

That string of explosive derailments has led critics to dub the shipments "bomb trains".