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Mr. Fulop said the trains use the elevated track studied in the FEMA exercise. Even more trains hauling crude pass through other cities, including Chicago, Philadelphia and Minneapolis.
Rail shipments of oil have expanded to almost 374 million barrels last year from 20 million barrels in 2010, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Although low crude prices and safety issues have recently led to small declines in such traffic, trains carrying volatile* oil from North Dakota and the Rocky Mountains continue to rumble toward refiners on the East, West and Gulf Coasts.[*volatile means: likely to become dangerous or out of control]
Several oil-train derailments have produced huge fireballs, including two in March in rural Illinois and Ontario. In 2013, a train carrying North Dakota crude derailed late at night in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people.
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