A Wisconsin railroad is seeking permission from the Office of the Commissioner of Railroads to expand a Taylor Frac sand loading facility east from Trempealeau County into the town of Springfield.

The Menomonie Town Board on Thursday night, June 14, unanimously approved recommending the rezoning of about 150 acres for a silica sand rail loading site. Vista Sand of Granbury, Texas, wants to ...

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The president of a Texas company proposing to build a sand loading facility in the Town of Menomonie met with area residents Saturday to explain the plan. R.J. Sykes of Vista Sand, a frac sand company ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twin Eagle Sand Logistics, LLC (“Twin Eagle”), a subsidiary of Twin Eagle Resource Management, LLC, is pleased to announce that it has broken ground on the Permian Rail Park.

The U.S. shale oil boom is putting millions of tons of sand onto North American railroads, enabling carriers to pack whole trains instead of hauling just a handful of cars at a time. Miners such as ...

A Canadian mining company won a key battle Monday night in its quest to build a rail shipping hub in Wabasha that is likely to accelerate the region's frac-sand boom at a time when local activists are ...

When Pat Bischel heard that Muskie Proppant was encountering resistance in locating a frac sand loading plant in Eau Claire, he got to work. The result is the sand loading facility will wind up on the ...