Crude oil boom has tankers rumbling through Holly Hills neighborhood

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/crude-oil-boom-has-tankers-rumbling-through-holly-hills-neighborhood/article_aed9175e-f5fb-5309-a1d1-0ba9cea3ef3e.html

ST. LOUIS • Judith Studebaker knew there were railroad tracks running behind her house when she bought in the Holly Hills subdivision 16 years ago.

But until the past few years, traffic was fairly light — mostly Amtrak liners and a few freight trains just beyond her backyard fence. Later, freight cars loaded with rock and other products began rumbling past.

Beginning about two years ago, Studebaker and her Arendes Drive neighbors noticed locomotives pulling long lines of black tank cars behind their homes.

“I kept wondering,” she said, “what was in the tankers?”