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Federal Railroad Administration Announces More Than $500,000 to Deter Trespassing
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded more than half a million dollars in Railroad Trespassing Enforcement Grants to law enforcement agencies today to support life-saving trespass abatement in multiple states.Railroad Trespassing Enforcement Grant Program
Overview: In the National Strategy to Prevent Trespassing on Railroad Property Report to Congress (October 2018), FRA committed to work through the executive and Congressional budget cycles to identify funding for railroad trespasser mitigation. As a result, under the Railroad Trespassing...
HQ-2018-1298
On September 23, 2018, at 3:49 a.m., CST, southbound Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) mixed freight train MVPNP-22 (Train 1), operating on Track Warrant Control (TWC) territory, derailed on the Little Floyd River Bridge. The incident occurred on the northeast edge of Alton, Iowa, city limits...
Train Energy and Dynamics Simulator (TEDS) Revenue Service Validation: Volume II Mixed Manifest Train with Distributed Power
From June 12, 2013, to July 31, 2017, the Federal Railroad Administration funded the development of the Train Energy and Dynamics Simulator (TEDS) software by Sharma & Associates, Inc. (SA) to study train operation safety and performance as affected by equipment, train...