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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...

Postmortem Investigation Of The Kansas. Test Track Volume II

The Kansas Test ~~rack (KTT) was comprised of nine .differen~tra'Cksystems, , which were built on a: designed embankment. The KTT subgrade experienced prema.ture failure in service, and KTT operations were terminated in June 1975 after six months of operation. A postmortem investigation of KTT...