But there is still much to be done, particularly given the structural weaknesses of many tank cars, current and former federal officials say.

Several cars made contact with the water, including a tank car.

This in turn increased the leak and fire, further heating the tank car.

Such tank cars are often placarded as "Food service use only".

He put down the tank car and I counted the trucks; there were nine, but one had no red on it.

That's why the railroad spur going into the place- and the tank cars.

Every investor got a model of a tank car, just like the real one, as a desk ornament.

Oil for the kiln was shipped in six 500-gallon tank cars eight feet long.

That same day we went ahead and bought our first tank car.

The car, model 111A, is the most common type in the nation's fleet of 208,000 tank cars.