Bridget G. Brennan, who heads the prosecutor's office, said the tanker car was parked on a rail spur outside the warehouse.

A simple attack on a tanker car could kill as many as 100,000 people in 30 minutes.

Regulated substances are carried in double-hulled tanker cars and information on the handling of the substances is furnished to train crews.

Because several tanker cars in the fire would have released a toxic gas if they had broken open, the town was evacuated.

One main concern was attended to today when workers hauled from the tunnel without incident a ruptured tanker car of hydrochloric acid.

Emergency officials will try then to right one of the tanker cars leaking phosphorous oxychloride.

A tanker car tumbled into the river and ruptured, spilling the pesticide.

A deal was struck wherein Steamtown was to swap its tanker cars for NC1.

A third tanker car, containing butadiene, a colorless flammable gas, also posed a danger if punctured.

The first time he had endured eight freezing nights and sweltering days aboard the train by strapping his belt to bar atop a tanker car.