An oil train was still on fire and leaking in West Virginia on Tuesday, a day after it derailed and erupted in flames, according to CSX Corp, which said the train was hauling newer model tank cars, not the older versions widely criticized as prone to puncture. 
 
 The train, which was carrying North Dakota crude to an oil depot in Yorktown, Virginia, derailed in a small town 33 miles southeast of Charleston, causing 20 tank cars to catch fire. Several were still leaking oil on Tuesday. All the oil tank cars on the 109-car train were CPC 1232 models, CSX said late Monday. 
 
 The CPC 1232 is the newer, supposedly tougher version of the DOT-111 car manufactured before 2011, which was faulted by regulators and operators for a number of years. U.S. and Canadian authorities, under pressure to address a spate of fiery accidents, are seeking to phase out the older models. The U.S. Transportation Department has recommended that even these later models be updated with improved braking systems and thicker hulls. 
 
 The fires, which destroyed one house and resulted in the evacuation of two nearby towns, were left to burn out on Tuesday, CSX said in a statement. No serious injuries were reported. 
 
 CSX said the cleanup of oil will begin when it can safely reach the site. In the meantime, delays are expected on the line. 
 
 None of the 25 tank cars that derailed fell into the nearby Kanawha River, CSX said. On Monday, officials said at least one car had entered the river. 
 
 Water tests along the Kanawha River have so far come up negative for traces of oil, according to a spokeswoman at the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. A nearby water treatment plant has been closed, she said. 
 
 This accident followed the Feb. 14 derailment in Ontario of a Canadian National Railways train from Alberta. It was also the second derailment in a year along this CSX line. A similar incident in Virginia involved a train also headed to Plains All American Pipelines LP's oil depot in Yorktown, Virginia. 
 
 A boom in oil rail shipments rail across North America has heightened focus on safety. In July 2013, 47 people were killed in the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded. 
 
 (Reporting by Jonathan Leff, Edward McAllister and Jarret Renshaw in New York; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and David Gregorio) 

 MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) — Oil cars were still burning more than a day after a train carrying 3 million gallons of North Dakota crude derailed in a West Virginia snowstorm, shooting fireballs into the sky. 
 
 Firefighters inspect derailed train cars near Mount Carbon, W.Va., Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. A CSX train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed in a snowstorm, sending a fireball into the sky... (Associated Press) 
 
 A fire burns Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, after a train derailment near Charleston, W.Va. Nearby residents were told to evacuate as state emergency response and environmental officials headed to the scene.... (Associated Press) 
 
 Firefighters look at burning train cars from W.Va. Route 61 near Mount Carbon, W.Va., Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. A CSX train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed in a snowstorm, sending a... (Associated Press) 
 
 Derailed oil tanker train cars burn near Mount Carbon, W.Va., Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. A CSX train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed in a snowstorm, sending a fireball into the sky and... (Associated Press) 
 
 A fire burns Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, after a train derailment near Charleston, W.Va. Nearby residents were told to evacuate as state emergency response and environmental officials headed to the scene.... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this Monday, Feb. 16, 2015 photo provided by WCHS-TV, fire burns at the scene of a train derailment, near Mount Carbon, W.Va. Fires burned for nearly nine hours after the train carrying more than 100... (Associated Press) 
 
 Hundreds of families were evacuated after losing their drinking water and electricity when 19 tank cars slammed into each other and caught fire, leaking oil into a Kanawha River tributary and burning a nearby house down to its foundation. 
 
 "There's nothing there," said Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, who toured the scene. "All you can see is a couple of blocks sticking out of the ground. There's some pickup trucks out front completely burned to the ground." 
 
 One person — the homeowner — was treated for smoke inhalation, but no other injuries were reported, according to the train company, CSX. The two-person crew, an engineer and conductor, managed to decouple the train's engines from the wreck behind it and walk away unharmed. 
 
 The train derailed near unincorporated Mount Carbon just after passing through Montgomery, a town of 1,946, on a stretch where the rails wind past businesses and homes crowded between the water and the steep, tree-covered hills. 
 
 Fire crews had little choice Tuesday but to let the tanks burn themselves out. Each carries up to 30,000 gallons of crude. 
 
 These rail shipments jumped from 9,500 carloads in 2008 to more than 435,000 in 2013, driven by a boom in the Bakken oil patch of North Dakota and Montana, where pipeline limitations force 70 percent of the crude to move by rail, according to American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers. 
 
 The downside: Trains hauling Bakken-region oil have been involved in major accidents in Virginia, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Alabama, and Canada, where 47 people were killed by an explosive derailment in 2013 in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. 
 
 Reports of leaks and other oil releases from tank cars are up as well, from 12 in 2008 to 186 last year, according to Department of Transportation records reviewed by The Associated Press. 
 
 Just Saturday — two days before the West Virginia wreck — 29 cars of a 100-car Canadian National Railway train carrying diluted bitumen crude derailed in a remote area 50 miles south of Timmins, Ontario, spilling oil and catching fire. That train was headed from Alberta to Eastern Canada. 
 
 The train that derailed Monday was bound for an oil shipping depot in Yorktown, Virginia along the same route where three tank cars plunged into the James River in Lynchburg, Va., prompting an evacuation last year. 
 
 All three of these accidents involved model 1232 tank cars, which include safety upgrades voluntarily adopted by the industry four years ago. An estimated $7 billion has been spent to put 57,000 of these cars into service, according to the Railway Supply Institute. 
 
 Now the Obama Administration is considering requiring even more upgrades, such as thicker tanks, shields to prevent tanks from crumpling, rollover protections and electronic brakes that could make cars stop simultaneously, rather than slam into each other. 
 
 Some of these measures would cost billions more and have been strongly opposed by the oil and rail industries. 
 
 The National Transportation Safety Board said its investigators will compare this wreck to others including Lynchburg and one near Casselton, N.D., when a Bakken crude train created a huge fireball that forced the evacuation of the farming town. 
 
 "This accident is another reminder of the need to improve the safety of transporting hazardous materials by rail," said Christopher Hart, NTSB's acting chairman. 
 
 Snow was falling heavily Monday — as much as 7 inches in some places — but it's not clear if weather was a factor. All but two of the 109 cars were tanks, and 26 of them left the tracks. 
 
 No cause has been determined, said CSX regional vice president Randy Cheetham. He said the tracks had been inspected just three days before the wreck. 
 
 "They'll look at train handling, look at the track, look at the cars. But until they get in there and do their investigation, it's unwise to do any type of speculation," he said. 
 
 By Tuesday evening, power crews were restoring electricity, water treatment plants were going back online, and most of the local residents were back home. Initial tests showed no crude near water plant intake points, state Environmental Protection spokeswoman Kelley Gillenwater said. 
 
 If approved, the increased safety requirements now under White House review would phase out tens of thousands of the older tank cars being used to carry highly flammable liquids, and require more recently retrofitted cars to have new upgrades. 
 
 Sen. Manchin and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin deferred questions on safety Tuesday, saying it's largely up to federal officials. But the state does have a say over some safety variables, such as public disclosure. 
 
 Railroads are required by federal order to tell state emergency officials where trains carrying Bakken crude are traveling. CSX and other railroads called this information proprietary, but more than 20 states rejected the industry's argument, informing the public as well as first-responders about the crude moving through their communities. 
 
 West Virginia is among those keeping it secret. State officials responded to an AP Freedom of Information request by releasing documents redacted to remove nearly every detail. 
 
 There are no plans to reconsider after this latest derailment, said Melissa Cross, a program manager for the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 
 
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 Contributors include Joan Lowy in Washington, D.C.; Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana; and Pam Ramsey in Charleston, West Virginia. Mattise reported from Charleston. 

 TIMMINS — A 100-car CN freight train hauling crude oil derailed north of Gogama around midnight Saturday. 
 
 The wreckage sparked a fire among seven of the 29 eastbound cars that derailed, but there were no reports of injuries by midday Sunday, according to a CN official. 
 
 Gogoma is a small community located between Sudbury and Timmins. 
 
 The CN mainline is blocked and there was no indication how long it will take to clear the line. 
 
 The crash is along a remote stretch of track between the tiny communities of Gogama and Foleyet, just southwest of Timmins, and cannot be accessed by road, according to OPP. 
 
 One railway worker near the scene predicted the cleanup "will take a few days." 
 
 ”CN has initiated its emergency response plan and has crews responding to the site. That includes firefighting and environmental crews and equipment,” CN spokesman Patrick Waldron told QMI Agency. 
 
 Waldron said CN emergency crews “are conducting a full site assessment to determine the number of rail cars involved and if any product has been spilled." 
 
 Some of the derailed cars are broken and scattered along the side of the tracks where the snow is chest deep. 
 
 All day Sunday, heavy trucks, excavators and bulldozers have been moving toward the scene. 
 
 In some cases equipment is being shipped by rail while some heavy equipment operators have been moving slowly along a frozen logging road, running off of Highway 144 south of Timmins. 
 
 Waldron said the remaining 71 rail cars were safely pulled back from the derailment scene. 
 
 The Transportation Safety Board dispatched a team to the site late Sunday morning. 
 
 "CN is working in close contact with all relevant provincial and emergency response authorities, including environment and the Transportation Safety Board," Waldron said. 

 BOOMER, W.Va. — A train hauling millions of pounds of crude oil that derailed on Monday was still burning Tuesday night as oil poured from the wreckage. 
 
 Residents relied on bottled water that was trucked into town after the utility West Virginia American Water, fearing that oil had been dumped into the Kanawha River, closed a treatment plant downstream, in Montgomery, on Monday. The company reopened the plant on Tuesday afternoon, saying tests had shown “nondetectable levels of the components of crude oil” in the river. Still, aerial photographs appeared to show oil in a nearby creek, and the utility advised its 2,000 customers in the area to boil water before using it. 
 
 The CSX train, with 109 tanker cars and two locomotives, derailed about 1:20 p.m. here in the southern part of the state, sending fireballs ripping through the air. The governor’s office released a statement Tuesday saying that 26 tankers had derailed and that “19 of those tankers were involved in the fire.” 
 
 Spills and fires in derailments have prompted concerns about the safety of transporting oil by rail. In 2011, the American Association of Railroads required that new tanker cars meet higher standards to resist rupture in accidents, though it did not require refitting older cars. CSX said the tankers in Monday’s crash had all been built to the new specifications.
– Train cars carrying crude oil were still burning last night, more than 24 hours after a derailment in West Virginia, and the New York Times describes the scene as a grim one, with "the dark plume of smoke visible from many miles away, and a bitter aroma of burning plastic" in the air. Hundreds of people were ordered to leave their homes after the crash, which burned one house to the ground. The train was carrying millions of gallons of crude oil from North Dakota to a ship terminal in Virginia, and while there was only one injury reported after Monday's crash, authorities fear it could be only a matter of time until there's another disaster like the oil train derailment that killed 47 people in Quebec in 2013 and are seeking stronger upgrades to train cars, the AP reports. Train shipments of crude oil from the Bakken region surged from fewer than 10,000 carloads in 2008 to more than 435,000 in 2013, according to the AP, and reports of leaks and other incidents also soared from 12 in 2008 to 186 last year. All 109 oil cars in the train involved in Monday's accident were the newer, supposedly tougher CPC 1232 models, and the Department of Transportation is considering regulations that would bring stronger hulls and better braking systems even to the newer models, reports Reuters. Just two days before the West Virginia crash, seven cars caught fire when a train carrying around 100 cars of crude derailed in northern Ontario, reports the Sudbury Star.