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Despite Fears, Number of Oil Trains Increasing at Port of Tacoma

The Union Pacific oil train that derailed June 3 in Mosier, Oregon, rolled into the Port of Tacoma on June 19 with little notice, despite the intense scrutiny its wreck, spill and fire attracted to the expanding practice of shipping crude oil by rail through the Columbia River gorge and the greater Pacific Northwest.

Derrick Nunnally | The (Tacoma, Wash.) News Tribune
June 20, 2016