Oil and gas companies are required to plug a well once they are done with it, but small operators often dissolve or go bankrupt before they do, leaving the Railroad Commission to pick up the tab.

NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio -- The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration ... was awarded to the Ohio Rail Development Commission for the Race Road Grade Separation ...

The federal ... railroad deregulation, but by then, many railroads were operating under greatly reduced circumstances, if they were operating at all. By 1995, the Interstate Commerce Commission ...