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Preliminary Summary of 1994 Accident/Incident Data for January - December

A railroad is required to make an accident/incident report within 30 days of the end of each month. The FRA examines these reports and resolves errors, omissions, and contradictory information with the reporting railroad. However, even with extensive editing the possibility exists that some...

FRA Guide for Preparing Accidents/Incidents Reports

Railroad should refer to this guide in preparing FRA accident/incident report forms. Further reference should be made to 49 C.F.R. 225. These instructions are intended solely as a guide to reporting and do not limit in any way those accidents/incidents to be reported.

Fiber Optic Train Tracking - Phase 1

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored a test conducted by Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI), in September 2017, to evaluate the capability of Fiber-Optic Acoustic Detection (FOAD) to track trains and identify track occupied in multiple track territories. Testing results...

Impact of Water on Cracked Concrete Crosstie Service Life

To investigate the impact of moisture on crack growth and other tie damage, UIUC researchers subjected pretensioned concrete crossties and small-scale beams to repeated loading conditions with water added to the system. Laboratory results revealed that cracked pretensioned concrete crossties...

Quasi-Static Research Testing of Workstation Tables

Sharma & Associates, Inc. (SA) performed quasi-static destructive loading tests on two different designs of passenger workstation tables in accordance with the requirements of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) safety standard APTA PR-CS-S-018-013, Revision 1. SA conducted...