July 28, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, July 27, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C, July 27, 2022 — To enhance safety, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced a proposed rule requiring a minimum of two train...
July 28, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines, TTD
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 27, 2022) The Federal Railroad Administration has released its long-anticipated rule proposal to require two-person crews for trains, drawing predictable, and strong, reactions from railroads (which are opposed), and unions (which are in...
July 7, 2022 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, July 6, 2022) Recent freight rail service issues have brought attention to the Surface Transportation Board, an independent federal agency that oversees economic regulations related to the railroads. This oversight includes railroad rates and...
July 6, 2022 | FRA, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, July 5, 2022) NEW YORK — Whether the Surface Transportation Board (STB) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will suffer from a June 30 Supreme Court (SCOTUS) trimming of regulatory agency authority to interpret their own governing statutes...
July 6, 2022 | FRA, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Railway Age column by Dr. Starr Kidda, Human Factors Division Chief, FRA Office of Research, Development and Technology, July 5, 2022) NEW YORK — Despite tremendous progress in railroad safety over the past 40 years, some statistical measures of safety...
June 21, 2022 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, June 20, 2022) The debate on whether the U.S. federal government should allow the movement of liquefied natural gas by rail could come to a head this summer, with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) poised to make...
June 17, 2022 | Fatigue, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, June 13, 2022) The Federal Railroad Administration is now requiring the Class I railroads, Amtrak and commuter railroads to include fatigue risk management plans as part of their larger system safety and risk reduction programs. Full story:...
June 16, 2022 | Congressional Hearing, FRA, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Railway Age, June 15, 2022) NEW YORK — “Examining Freight Rail Safety” was the theme of a June 14 hearing of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. The aim: for members “to hear...
June 15, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg Government, June 14, 2022) Republicans and railroads urged President Joe Biden’s rail chief Tuesday against a rule that could require at least two crew members on freight trains. Republicans and industry representatives contend that a crew-size...
June 15, 2022 | FRA, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, June 15 — On June 13, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) published its long awaited rule on rail worker fatigue management. The fatigue final rule was mandated by the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The rule requires railroads to...
