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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...

Railroad Safety Advisory Committee Meeting

FRA announces the fifty-seventh meeting of the RSAC, a Federal Advisory Committee (Committee) that develops recommendations on railroad safety regulations and other railroad safety issues through a consensus process. This meeting has been rescheduled from January 26, 2017, the previously announced...