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Port Bienville Draft Environmental Impact Statement Appendix C

The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), and the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission (HCPHC) are preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate a proposed new freight rail line that would provide a direct connection...

Port Bienville Draft Environmental Impact Statement Appendix B Part-2

This section presents the results of the Phase I archaeological survey. No previously recorded archaeological sites were within the Archaeological APE. A total of 24 newly recorded linear archaeological sites were identified within the Archaeological APE. No other archaeological material was...

Port Bienville Draft Environmental Impact Statement Appendix B Part-1

This report describes the field and laboratory methods for and the results of a Phase I Archaeological and Cultural Historic Reconnaissance survey conducted for the Mississippi Department of Transportation, the Federal Railroad Administration, and the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission for a...

Port Bienville Draft Environmental Impact Statement_Appendix A

The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), in conjunction with Federal Rail Administration (FRA) and the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission (HCPHC), has prepared this Feasibility Study for the location of a new railroad line to connect the Port Bienville Short Line Railroad,...

Railroad Safety Strategy

Section 102 of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA) directed the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to develop a Railroad Safety Strategy and submit it at the same time as the President’s budget. FRA has incorporated this requirement with the fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget request to...

Mechanical Properties of Tank Car Steels Retired from the Fleet

The purpose of this program was to obtain samples of steel used for tank car shell and head fabrication in the current tank car fleet. Once obtained, the dynamic fracture toughness of a subset of material was determined as well as basic material characterization of all samples. The process of...

HQ-2016-1146 (Finalized)

On July 15, 2016, at 5:53 p.m., CST, a Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train with 2 engines and 93 cars traveling timetable south (geographical south) collided with a westbound automobile that drove across a private crossing, resulting in the death of all 4 occupants of the automobile. The...

HQ-2017-1184 (Finalized)

On February 3, 2017, at approximately 8:55 p.m., CST, southbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Coal Train CWTCL9-01, with 2 lead locomotives, 2 distributed power locomotives at the rear of the train, 133 loaded rail cars, and 0 empty rail cars, derailed 18 rail cars at Milepost 1.1 on UP’s Giddings...

19287

On December 1, 2013, at 7:19 a.m., EST, a southbound Metro-North Railroad (MNCW) passenger train, number 8808, derailed in Bronx, New York, on Main Track Number 2. The derailment resulted in four fatalities, multiple personal injuries, a fuel spill, equipment and track damage of $5,876,090, and...

HQ-2016-1123 (Finalized)

On Sunday, April 3, 2016, at 7:50 a.m., EDT, Amtrak southbound Train Number 89, consisting of one head-end locomotive, eight passenger coaches, one café car, and one baggage car, was operating on Main Track Number 3 at 106 mph when the Engineer noticed maintenance-of-way (MOW) employees and...