Many central Finger Lakes communities have rails running through town. In recent years, residents may have noticed more and more of the railroad cars being pulled along are of the tanker variety. What most probably don’t know, is that these tankers are carrying crude oil from points far west to the Port of Albany.Read more about the hundreds of thousands of barrels of Bakken Crude rolling through upstate New York at the NY Times website.
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