Every day “unit trains” consisting of between 75 and 125 tanker cars rumble across New York State carrying crude oil. These trains pass through communities in 22 counties, including Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, Albany and Plattsburgh. Each tanker car carries 30,000 gallons, and a single unit train can haul 2.2 million gallons of crude oil. The unit trains utilize more than 1,000 miles of rail in New York, much of it located adjacent to the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, as well as dozens of smaller water bodies. Most of these trains converge on the Port of Albany, where this crude oil is stored for brief periods in terminals that process more than three billion gallons annually.
The Port of Albany is served by two major rail carriers and provides year-round access to barges that can efficiently move large volumes of crude. From the storage terminals in Albany the crude oil is transferred to barges for the trip down the Hudson River and eventually to refineries along the East or Gulf coasts.
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