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Roadway Worker Authority Limits— Importance of Clear Communication, Compliance With Applicable Rules and Procedures, and Ensuring That Appropriate Safety Redundancies Are in Place in the Event of Miscommunication or Error

FRA is issuing Safety Advisory 2014–02 to reemphasize the importance of clear communication and compliance with applicable rules and procedures regarding roadway worker authority limits on controlled track. FRA believes it is necessary to issue this advisory in light of the miscommunication or...

Fiscal Year 2016 Enforcement Report

In 2016, for a second year in a row, as part of a continued effort to increase consequences of violations which negatively impact safety, FRA took significant steps to increase penalty amounts paid by railroads.

HQ-2014-1049 (Finalized)

On October 30, 2014, at 6:49 p.m., an eastbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train traveling on single main track, in train control system territory collided with an automobile at a highway-rail grade crossing. The accident occurred in Vandalia, Illinois, at Milepost (MP) Q172.3, on CSX’s St....

HQ-2015-1100 (Finalized)

On December 22, 2015, at 5:45 p.m., CST, an Amtrak (ATK) passenger train (two engines and seven cars) traveling timetable east (geographic east) collided with a northbound automobile that stopped on a public crossing, resulting in the death of five occupants of the automobile. The train crew did...

HQ-2015-1094 (Finalized)

On November 7, 2015, at 8:45 a.m., CST, eastbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) Mixed-Freight Train H-NTWKCK-9-06 derailed 25 cars while operating on BNSF’s Chicago Division, St. Croix Subdivision, on Main Track 1. The train consisted of 58 loaded cars, 54 empty cars, and weighed 9,726 tons. The train was 8,...

HQ-2015-1063 (Finalized)

On July 4, 2015, at 10:15 p.m., CST, a westbound Amtrak passenger train, AMT 01-03, in Harwood, Texas, in Gonzales County, collided with a northbound pick-up truck at the highway-rail grade crossing (at Milepost 144.31) on FM 794 (U.S. DOT Crossing Number 742684Y). AMT 01-03, with two locomotives...

HQ-2015-1062 (Finalized)

On Friday, July 3, 2015, at 7:45 a.m., CST, Kansas City Southern Railroad (KCS) southbound loaded rock train, OHTSM 03, operating with 2 head-end locomotives and 50 loaded rock cars, struck the rear of a standing manifest train, HKCSH-30, operating with one head-end locomotive and one rear-end...

HQ-2015-1051 (Finalized)

On May 6, 2015, at 1:45 a.m., CST, a southbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) loaded mixed freight train derailed. The derailment occurred at Peck, Kansas, Milepost (MP) 262.5, on the main track of the Wichita Division, Enid Subdivision area, Timetable Number 4, dated March 26, 2012.