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Federal Register Notices - Document Drafting Handbook

Gives guidance and examples for drafting Federal Register documents. This guidance explains how to follow the submission, format, and editorial requirements established in 44 U.S.C. chapter 15 (the Federal Register Act) and 1 CFR chapter I.

The FRA Administrator’s Declaration of Emergency Event

Pursuant to Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) § 211.45, Federal Railroad Administration Executive Director and Acting Administrator Patrick Warren, has determined that recent heavy rainfall, and severe flooding in several states along the Mississippi River and its tributaries,...

Quiet Zone Locations

FRA regularly makes publically available a list of quiet zone locations by state, city, type of quiet zone, railroad, and related information.

HQ-2014-10 (Finalized)

On August 17, 2014, at 2:28 a.m., CST, southbound Union Pacific (UP) freight train, MASNL-16, traveling at a recorded 45 miles per hour, collided head-on with a northbound UP freight train, QNLPI-17, traveling at a recorded 31 miles per hour mph. The collision occurred at Milepost 228.6 on UP...

HQ-2013-28 (Finalized)

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...