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The Federal Railroad Safety Program: 100 Years of Safer Railroads

This document details the history of railroad safety in the last one hundred years. It includes historic counting of employee fatalities as well as information about safety legislation, including: The First Safety Appliance Act (1893), The Second Safety Appliance Act (1904), The Hours of Service...

Tank Car Manufacturing/Repair/Retest Facility Evaluation Form

An evaluation form has been developed to aid Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) inspectors in recording data when examining tank car manufacturing and repair facilities, when inspecting newly constructed cars, or when examining cars which have been repaired or retested. Instructions and...

Small Railroad Investment Goals and Financial Options

Small railroads appear to face some unique problems and difficulties securing financing. According to the banking industry, it takes an inordinate amount of work to prepare a small railroad loan package, compared to a similar sized loan for other businesses (like a warehouse or an office building...

Safety of High Speed Magnetic Levitation Transportation System: U.S. Maglev System Concept Definition (SDCs) - System Safety Review

Magnetic levitation (maglev) technology has the potential to provide very high speed travel with the capacity and convenient access of conventional passenger railways, while relieving U.S. highway and airport congestion. A need exists for the assessment of the safety implications of this new form...

Final Report on Magnetic and Electric Field Testing of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Urban Transit System, Volume I: Analysis

This report documents the low frequency electric and magnetic fields associated with the operation of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) mass transit system in the Boston area. With excellent cooperation and assistance of MBTA personnel, comprehensive measurements were made on and...

Federal Railroad Administration National Law Enforcement Liaison Program

Safety of High Speed Ground Transportation Systems - X2000 U.S. Demonstration Vehicle Dynamics Tests, Final Test Report

This report docunents the procedures, events, and results of vehicle dynamic tests carried out on the ASEA-Brown Boveri (ABB) X2000 tilt body trainset in the U.S. between October 1992 and May 1993. These tests, sponsored by Amtrak and supported by the FRA, were conducted to assess the suitability...

Preliminary Program Workshop on Safety Research Related to High-Speed Rail and Maglev Passenger Systems

In many areas of the country, potential U.S. applications for high-speed rail and maglev technologies are being considered. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation has statutory responsibility to assure the safe operations of intercity high-speed rail and...

National Maglev Initiative

This brochure describes the National Maglev Initiative.

Preliminary Intermodal Data Inventory

[From the Introduction] One of the duties of the Office of Intermodalism, specified in Title V of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), is the development of an intermodal transportation data base. Section 5001(c) of the ISTEA states: "(4) INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION DATA BASE...

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