November 30, 2021 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, DOT, FRA, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: JD Supra, November 23, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, H.R. 3684 (117), was signed into law by President Biden on November 15, 2021. In addition to $66 billion in funding for passenger and freight railroads, the law...
November 22, 2021 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, November 19, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced today that the charter of the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) has been...
November 1, 2021 | FRA, Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 1, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Citing a string of recent train-service employee accidents involving injury or maiming, the Federal Railroad Administration last week again warned Norfolk Southern about deficiencies in its...
October 15, 2021 | Commuter Rail, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 14, 2021) CHICAGO — Deputy Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose released the agency’s Midwest Regional Rail Plan at a Chicago Union Station media event Wednesday, characterizing it as “a 40-year multi-state framework and vision...
October 4, 2021 | Accident, Amtrak, FRA, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Washington Post, October 1, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been a week since an Amtrak train derailed in rural Montana, killing three people and injuring dozens more. Federal investigators are working to determine what caused the derailment, which halted...
October 1, 2021 | FRA, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, September 30, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board Thursday again called on the Federal Railroad Administration and Amtrak to put an immediate end to the use of “train approach...
September 28, 2021 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, September 24, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amit Bose, Deputy Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, took on questions about automated track inspection, crew sizes, hazardous materials transportation, and port congestion, among other...
September 17, 2021 | BNSF, FRA, Headlines, Oil Train, Railroad Security
(Source: Bellingham Herald, September 16, 2021) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A week after a federal agency blamed last year’s oil train derailment and fire north of Ferndale on safety lapses and “possible” vandalism, state Sen. Doug Ericksen is renewing his call for...
September 16, 2021 | BNSF, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, September 15, 2021) NEW YORK — A Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) report says vandalism may have caused the derailment of a BNSF train in Custer, Wash., back in December. The FRA, however, has not cleared BNSF of any...
September 10, 2021 | FRA, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: KING5, September 10, 2021) CUSTER, Wash. — “Possible vandalism” was a contributing cause of a fiery Whatcom County oil train derailment in December 2020, according to a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) report released Thursday. The BNSF...
