It's reasons such as this is why they wanted to build a pipeline from Canada into the US. It's not only trains. This stuff is being moved on our highways too.
And to the writer of that newspaper article, crude oil IS NOT explosive. Yes it burns like a mutha fuka, but it does not explode in its raw form which is what was on the train.
Regardless of who was at fault, this was a horrible accident, and rather than looking for a scapegoat, they should be focusing on ways of preventing it from happening again. If the company that owns the railroad was a fault, they will pay through the nose. Making comparisons to "ALL" of corporate America is simply insulting.