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Monday, August 16, 2004 (Washington, DC) Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin will share $5.2 million to improve highway-rail grade crossings as part of a program to enhance safety and prepare federally designated corridors for future high-speed rail operations.
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Thursday, July 29, 2004 (Akron, Ohio) The Wheeling & Lake Erie (W&LE) Railway will get a much needed face lift thanks to a new loan from the U.S. Department of Transportation meant to boost the competitiveness of the railroad that serves as a key economic link in Ohio, Pennsylvania and...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2004 (Washington, DC) Train crews will more likely survive and suffer fewer and less severe injuries from accidents under regulations proposed by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), published in today’s Federal Register. Newly manufactured and rebuilt freight...
Friday, October 22, 2004 (Washington, DC) Daylight Saving Time Ends Sunday, Oct. 31, For Most Americans. Most of the nation will return to standard time at 2 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, when clocks will be set back one hour. The change will provide an additional hour of daylight in the morning. Under...
Friday, April 11, 2003 (Washington, DC) Federal Railroad Administrator Allan Rutter today announced the award of an $11 million Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) direct loan to the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad, headquartered in Springdale, Ark. The RRIF program is an...
Thursday, April 10, 2003 (Washington, DC) In testimony before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury and Independent Agencies today, Deputy Secretary of Transportation Michael P. Jackson hailed the signing of an agreement between DOT and Amtrak as the first step toward a new...
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 (Washington, DC) Since first issuing guidelines on the use of remote control in February 2001, the FRA has closely monitored the use of the technology industry-wide. Current regulations govern the training of employees operating remote control devices as well as device...
Thursday, January 16, 2003 (Washington, DC) At a meeting of commuter rail operators in Washington, DC, Federal Railroad Administrator Allan Rutter today released the following statement in response to Amtrak’s threatened service shutdown should Congress appropriate less than $1.2 billion...
Monday, January 13, 2003 (Washington, DC) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the online availability of GradeDec.Net, an Internet application and database designed to aid benefit-cost analyses of highway-rail grade crossing infrastructure investments. The application,...