Nearly 3,000 Canadian railroad tank cars are no longer carrying dangerous goods after falling foul of the beefed-up safety regulations that followed last year’s fatal derailment in Quebec. Canada’s Transport Department said 2,879 tank cars were deemed too risky to carry goods such as oil and chemicals in the country, according to documents presented in Parliament last week. In late April , Canada gave rail operators 30 days to stop using the least crash resistant types of DOT-111 tanks cars to transport such goods. Those DOT-111s still transporting dangerous goods have to be refitted with thicker steel and stronger reinforcements within a three-year period, or else be pulled off the rails. The DOT-111 was […]