February 9, 2022 | FRA, News
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 9 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), working in collaboration with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, is asking locomotive engineers and conductors to...
February 9, 2022 | Commuter Rail, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, February 8, 2022) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) yesterday issued a request for information (RFI) on a new program that will identify intercity passenger-rail corridors across the United States. Full story: Progressive...
February 1, 2022 | COVID, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, January 31, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The spike in COVID-19 infections and quarantines among Class I railroad employees has continued this month and hit a pandemic high in the week ending Jan. 22, according to the most recent data from the...
January 26, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, DOT, FRA, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, January 26, 2022) NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) have been allowed to file additional comments with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) regarding Amtrak’s application to...
January 13, 2022 | FRA, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, January 13 — On January 12, 2022, the U.S. Senate confirmed Amit Bose to serve as Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Dennis R. Pierce, National President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET),...
January 13, 2022 | AFL-CIO, FRA, Headlines, TTD
(Source: AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department press release, January 12, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issued this statement after the Senate...
January 11, 2022 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 7, 2022) Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (T&I) have informed the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) of their “serious concerns” regarding the Biden...
January 10, 2022 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, January 10, 2022) NEW YORK — The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) proposed temporary suspension of its regulations authorizing the transportation of liquefied natural gas by rail have prompted not only the Railway...
December 13, 2021 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, December 10, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Deputy Administrator Amit Bose visited the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on December 8, 2021 to discuss recent progress in...
December 13, 2021 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, December 7, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Federal-State Partnership for State...
