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Accident Investigation Summary Report FE-2023-04
On March 7, 2023, at approximately 1:08 a.m. EST, a Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) conductor was fatally injured when Train C75B106 collided with a dump truck at a private road crossing in Cleveland, Ohio. The accident occurred on NS’s Cleveland Branch Line near a steel mill owned by...
Evaluation of Modern Locomotive Crashworthiness Performance
The goal of this project is to assess crew safety of existing locomotive crashworthiness requirements using existing modern freight locomotive crash data analyses and simulation techniques. This project will evaluate the impact of the crashworthiness standards defined in Subpart D of 49 CFR Part...
Operation Lifesaver, Inc. Process Evaluation
The Federal Railroad Administration contracted Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to conduct a process evaluation of Operation Lifesaver, Inc.’s educational activities, with a focus on activities funded through an FRA grant agreement. The team conducted the evaluation from October 2022...
Expanding Summer Youth Programs in Rail through Virtual Learning and a National Campus Network – Phase I Report
FRA supported Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech), in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University Altoona (Penn State Altoona) and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), to establish a Tracks to the Future: Railroad Transportation and Engineering summer program...