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Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement Report
FRA takes care to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all data in each annual enforcement report. Information in each of FRA’s annual enforcement reports is based on information that FRA had at the time that the agency issued the report. If FRA receives more...
USDOT Intern Program Applications Open Now!
This is to announce that the DOT Secretarial Intern Program (SIP) vacancy announcement is now open to students interested in a summer internship with the Department of Transportation. The vacancy can be found at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/596133600. The announcement...
Technical Bulletin MP&E 21-01, Submission of Forms and Notifications for Steam Locomotives, Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations Part 230
On June 1, 2020, the Office of Railroad Safety implemented a major reorganization than eliminated all former Regional Offices. Until the various sections of Part 230 are amended to reflect the reorganization, owners and/or operators are to make all notifications, and submit all forms to...
HQ-2020-1399
On October 29, 2020, at approximately 7:25 a.m., CDT, a Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCS) northbound (timetable direction) mixed freight train (MBMSH-29), handling 95 loads, 60 empties with 4 locomotives (configured 4 x 0) at an estimated speed of 39 mph derailed 25 (15 loaded and 10...