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Notice of safety bulletin.
The FRA is issuing Safety Bulletin 97-2 addressing a recommended safety practice to stop trains on heavy descending grades of 2 percent or greater by initiating an emergency application of the train's air brakes whenever the train speed exceeds the maximum authorized speed by five miles per hour or more.