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Friday, January 26, 2007 (Washington, DC) In response to a deadly derailment in November of last year, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a safety advisory to railroad industry owners and operators urging them to ensure specialized maintenance equipment is only operated by...
Tuesday, September 22, 1998 (Washington, DC)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater today announced a proposal to revise and update federal safety regulations that govern both the nation’s railroads and the 40,000 men and women who work as locomotive engineers on America...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 (Washington, DC) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced it has determined that the proposed Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern (DM&E) Powder River Basin project has met the requirements of the federal environmental review process, and outlined new...
Friday, February 02, 2007 (Washington, DC) Employees at the nation’s largest rail yard in North Platte, Nebraska can now voluntarily and anonymously report “close call” incidents that could have resulted in an accident, but did not, without fear of sanction or penalty from...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 (Washington, DC) The future role of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal (NOUPT) in meeting the city’s transportation needs where passengers could potentially transfer between transit, commuter rail, and intercity rail and bus operations will be examined...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 (Washington, DC) For the first time ever the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will have authority to regulate railroad worker hours of service and will provide greater focus on risk reduction to improve safety in the railroad industry under a rail safety...
Monday, February 26, 2007 (Washington, DC) Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph H. Boardman today denied a $2.3 billion Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan application from the Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern (DM&E) railroad concluding it posed an unacceptably...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 (Washington, DC) The number of train accidents declined for the second year in a row and there were fewer highway-rail grade crossing collisions according to preliminary 2006 rail safety data announced today by U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 (Washington, DC) The train accident in Oneida, New York and other recent major rail accidents in New York State are of great concern to me and over the past 90-days I have directed the Federal Railroad Administration to take aggressive steps to find out what went wrong....
Friday, March 16, 2007 (Washington, DC) The Federal Railroad Administration announced it will jointly prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) with the California High-Speed Rail Authority for two sections of the state’s proposed high-speed passenger rail project. The two EIS...