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FRA Grant Application Form

Applicants are required to submit this Application Form and other documents as outlined in Section E of this application. Please complete this document and provide any supporting documentation electronically. Supporting documentation should be logically and descriptively labeled. For each...

Positive Train Location: Final Report

The overall goal of the Positive Train Location (PTL) project is to develop a system capable of providing the onboard PTC system with timely and accurate position reports of the head-of -train (HOT) and the end-of-train (EOT) for determining track discrimination and train length without the use of...

Ballast Degradation Under Heavy Axle Load Trains at the Western Mega Site

Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in conjunction with Union Pacific Railroad (UP), investigated ballast performance under 36-ton heavy axle load (HAL) traffic near Ogallala, NE, at the western mega site from 2010–2015. Periodic...

HQ-2017-1237 (Finalized)

On December 8, 2017, at 2:08 p.m., EST, eastbound CSX Transportation (CSX) mixed freight Train Q40407, consisting of 3 locomotives and 141 cars (66 loads/75 empties), derailed 31 cars at Consolidated Rail Corporation (CRSH) C.P. Townley on track No. 2. The derailment occurred on Conrail’s Lehigh...