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This document contains a matrix of existing State laws and statutes related to trails and rails-with-trails for all 50 States and the District of Columbia. It provides links to the relevant statutes. Trail managers and railroad companies can review these State statutes to ensure the validity of...
The objective of the Proposed Action is to connect two adjacent double-track segments. This would achieve the Proposed Action’s purpose of improving operations for both passengers and freight in terms of reliability, efficiency, and safety; improving commuter rail and intercity train service travel...
The Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Program is a competitive, discretionary grant program through which the Federal Railroad Administration funds capital projects that repair, replace, or rehabilitate publicly-owned or controlled railroad assets and improve intercity passenger...
On Sunday, March 18, 2018, at 11:14 p.m., EDT, southbound Norfolk Southern (NS) freight train 175T817 (Train 1) passed an absolute stop signal without authority and was struck head-on by northbound NS freight train M74T817 (Train 2). The head-on collision occurred on the NS Lake Division, CNO&...
Westbound Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) freight train 22QA104 (Train 1) with 3 locomotives and 72 cars (43 loads, 29 empty, 8,631 tons, 10,194 feet in length), derailed 25 cars at Milepost (MP) 765.65 on the Alabama Division’s East End District, near Eden, Alabama, on July 5, 2018, at 3:15 a.m.,...