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FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2013, file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. The Federal Railroad Administration says inspectors in North Dakota have found more than 13,000 defects and have written 721 violations against BNSF Railway since 2006. Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp asked the agency for the data following the fiery oil train derailment in Cassdelton. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)

Federal agency releases ND train inspection data

By JAMES MacPHERSON - Associated Press

FILE- In this Dec. 1, 2013 file photo, emergency personnel respond to the scene of a Metro-North passenger train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York. Metro-North trains are equipped with an automatic breaking system that might have prevented the crash, but the system was in place to regulate the distance between trains, not to control speeds as trains approached curves, or passed over hills and bridges. Since the crash, the speed limit was lowered on the approach to the curve, plus an alarm will sound and an automatic braking system will engage is a train approaches the bend too fast. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Railroad safety agency stretched thin and getting thinner, watchdog warns

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times