Oil train numbers drop along with oil prices

ST. PAUL — A third as many trains haul North Dakota crude oil across Minnesota as two years ago.

Falling oil prices forced a drop in oil output in the Bakken region in western North Dakota, which meant a dramatic drop in the number of trains needed to haul the oil to refineries to the east and south. Most North Dakota oil trains go through Minnesota.

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