text: typical uneducated left wing biased slant.  writer did absolutely zero research for this article what so ever.  Let me explain this to you all.  as of right now over 50 thousand tanker cars are sitting in storage and almost every single one of them are oil tanker cars and a good percentage of them are brand new tanker cars that have never been used and will never be used. Why? Oil; crude by train shipments have fallen by half esp on the coasts as importing crude from the Middle East and south America is so much cheaper than Bakken Crude. Also crude from Canada. but most of that goes to Delaware city DE .  new Tanker cars as they are being built are going into storage at rail short line , tourist lines all over the country.  Tourist lines in some cases  building tracks just to store freight and other rail cars the economic crash has turned down that bad in the past year! over 55,000 assorted freight  thousand of engines are in storage and hundreds  older engines are now being scapped