February 14, 2023 | AFL-CIO, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, TTD
(Source: Freight Waves, February 10, 2023) The fiery derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in Ohio on Feb. 3 has prompted some rail unions to press the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to increase its oversight of the freight railroads’ safety operations. Since...
February 10, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, NTSB, PSR
(Source: The Lever, February 8, 2023) Before this weekend’s fiery Norfolk Southern train derailment prompted emergency evacuations in Ohio, the company helped kill a federal safety rule aimed at upgrading the rail industry’s Civil War-era braking systems, according to...
January 19, 2023 | FRA, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Trains Magazine, January 17, 2022) The head of the Federal Railroad Administration has warned Class I railroads that it will take enforcement action if they don’t make recommended improvements to their engineer and conductor training and certification...
January 18, 2023 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 17, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration should revise and republish its initial regulatory flexibility analysis (IRFA) on its proposed two-person train crew rule because the agency “significantly understated”...
January 11, 2023 | Fatality, FRA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Trains Magazine, January 6, 2023) In the wake of a fatal accident on Norfolk Southern last month, the Federal Railroad Administration has issued a safety bulletin urging railroaders to conduct pre-departure inspections to ensure that no objects are protruding...
January 4, 2023 | 2-man Crews, CP-KCS Merger, FRA, Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, January 3, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board’s regulatory to-do list, train crew sizes and merger conditions related to Canadian Pacific’s acquisition of Kansas City Southern are just some of the big issues that rail industry stakeholders...
January 3, 2023 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, December 29, 2022) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Dec. 29 issued a safety advisory to make the rail industry aware “of a recent issue encountered by a train crew that experienced an unintended brake release of a train’s automatic...
December 28, 2022 | FRA, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 27, 2022) Implementation of precision scheduled railroading (PSR) at the nation’s largest freight railroads has resulted in longer trains and reductions in staff and assets, but the strategy’s impact on rail...
December 28, 2022 | Commuter Rail, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 21, 2022) The Federal Railroad Administration yesterday put out a call for project proposals for intercity passenger-rail corridors as part of the new federal Corridor Identification and Development Program. Full story:...
December 16, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Freight Waves, December 15, 2022) Railroads and unions gave conflicting views during a hearing by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on a proposed rulemaking that would require freight trains generally to have at least two crew members in the...
