Federal Railroad Administrator Celebrates Groundbreaking at Tukwila Station, Tours Mudslide Sites on Pacific Northwest Corridor

TUKWILA, Wash. – Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph C. Szabo today joined Congressman Adam Smith and other state and local officials for the groundbreaking of the new passenger rail station in Tukwila, Wash. The $46 million Tukwila Station project, which received $14.2 million from the...

Prototype Locomotive Crashworthy Component Drawings

Written Testimony: Rail Safety Hearing

Legacy Microwave to IP Microwave Conversion

Kansas City Southern Railway FRA Grant Methodology, Activities and Lessons Learned

Federal Railroad Administration Launches New Smartphone App to Raise Awareness of Highway-Rail Grade Crossings

WASHINGTON – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the launch of an iOS smartphone mobile application, the Rail Crossing Locator, which provides the public with easy access to safety information about the nation’s more than 200,000 highway-rail grade crossings....

Report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees: The Safety of Push-Pull and Multiple-Unit Locomotive Passenger Rail Operations

The Impact of Distracting Electronic Devices on the Safe Performance of Duties by Railroad Operating Employees : Initial Report of the Study Required by Section 405 of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008

Advisory Committee Recommends Passenger Rail Crashworthiness Standards to Accommodate High-Speed Rail

 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that its Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) voted unanimously to recommend that the Transportation Secretary work to implement new crashworthiness performance...

48th Meeting of Railroad Safety Advisory Committee