April 29, 2016 | DOT, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, April 28, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it is accepting applications from local governments, states and...
April 22, 2016 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, April 21, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the next step in its ongoing efforts to increase safety at railroad crossings, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today released a...
April 5, 2016 | FRA, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, April 4, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transporation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it is accepting applications for $25 million in competitive grant funding...
March 18, 2016 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, March 17, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today launched a redesigned website to serve as a one-stop shop to help drivers, pedestrians,...
March 15, 2016 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, March 15, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Trains would have to carry a minimum of two crew members under rules proposed Monday by federal regulators. The move is partly in response to a deadly 2013 crash in which an unattended oil train caught fire...
March 10, 2016 | FRA, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Dickinson Press, March 9, 2016) BISMARCK, N.D. — The first track inspector hired by North Dakota regulators for a new rail safety program created in the wake of two fiery oil train derailments has earned his federal certification while finding more than 400...
March 9, 2016 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, March 8, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that the agencies...
March 8, 2016 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Times-Call, March 6, 2016) LONGMONT, Colo. — The Federal Railroad Administration is reviewing and inviting comments about its controversial 11-year-old train horn rules that require locomotives to blare their horns when approaching and passing through...
February 29, 2016 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, February 26, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Railroad Administration today launched a new tool on its website that allows states and municipalities to request inspection reports for rail bridges in their...
February 29, 2016 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, February 26, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal regulators are failing to refer serious safety violations involving freight rail shipments of crude oil and other hazardous cargo for criminal prosecution, and are going lightly on civil fines,...
