Rail big on Bakken, movement of crude to East Coast

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New York—Rail transportation out of North Dakota’s Bakken Shale will continue to be tight, but demand for terminals in the region may start to show signs of peaking, rail officials said September 5 at a transportation conference where the domestic energy boom was talked up as the sector’s sweet spot. Railcar “demand is astronomical,” said Frederick Eliasson, an executive vice president and chief financial officer at CSX, told attendees at a Dahlman Rose event.