Filing 302921 by DOT & FRA; submitted August 27th, 2021: DOT & FRA did not take a position for or against the merger in this filing but detailed ways the proposal will impact freight rail competition, fluidity of Northeastern passenger rail as...

This report presents the concluding results related to Phase 1 of the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) project Categorizing Track Mud Spot Risk by Measurement of Vertical Track Deflection. The overall goal of the...

On August 25, 2021, at 5:08 p.m., CST, a collision involving three freight trains occurred at Milepost (MP) 429.752 on BNSF Railway Company’s (BNSF) St. Paul Subdivision, St. Paul, Minnesota.  

Researchers from General Electric (GE) Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Human Systems Lab are studying ways to improve the man-machine interface for the locomotive driving task and train handling with the assistance of...

This report describes the results of a program to modify the existing state-of-the-art end structure design for a Budd Pioneer cab car so it can be installed on a Budd M1 car and used to test the performance of end frames built to meet current APTA...