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Source: Freightwaves post WASHINGTON, D.C. – Part of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s (T&I) INVEST in America Act, which has been folded into the Moving Forward Act, is an item pertaining to DB-60 rail air brake control…

Source: Yahoo! Finance Washington, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is asking U.S. freight railroads to review their air brake and train handling instructions for end-of-train devices following a fatal October 2018 accident involving two Union Pacific (NYSE:…

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio – An investigative reporter for WTAE Channel 7 of Pittsburgh quoted a former Federal Railroad Administration official as claiming inclusion of the electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP)  brakes on the train might have reduced the massive derailment. The…

The following article was written by Scott Cummings, Senior Scientist, Transportation Technology Center, Inc. and Sawan Dumbre, Senior Product Development Engineer, TTX Company and posted on Railway Age. The post, excerpted here, covers the results of an investigation of rail…

Source: NTSB announcement ​WASHINGTON, D.C.  — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that an airbrake failure caused the fatal, Oct. 4, 2018, collision between two Union Pacific (UP) trains in Granite Canyon, Wyo. The collision occurred when the air…

Source: Federal Railroad Administration announcement WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced that positive train control (PTC) technology is in operation on all 57,536 required freight and passenger railroad route miles, prior to the…

Source: NJ Transit announcement KEARNY, N.J. — Governor Phil Murphy announced last week that NJ TRANSIT’s Positive Train Control (PTC) system had been certified by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) as meeting the December 31, 2020 deadline for implementation. This…

Source: The following was excerpted from a Railway Age post written by Marybeth Luczak, executive editor, concerning recent Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rulings, including one updating brake-safety standards. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Railroad Administration has announced the following rule:…

Source: National Transportation Safety Board announcement WASHINGTON, D.C. — Inappropriate use of hand brakes on empty rail cars was the probable cause of the Aug. 2, 2017 CSX Transportation, Inc. freight train accident near Hyndman, Penn., according to a National…

Source: Washington Post post WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. railroads are on track to meet a December deadline to implement an automatic braking system – Positive Train Control (PTC) –  that could prevent catastrophic collisions and derailments caused by speeding, the…

Source: Yahoo! Finance post WASHINGTON, D.C. – Federal rules revising how rail industry stakeholders should monitor and ensure healthy track infrastructure could be unveiled sometime soon. The rules on rail integrity amendments and track standards, FRA-2018-0104, are in the clearance…

Source: Federal Railroad Administration WASHINGTON – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has proposed new rules to update current track safety standards (TSS) and “improve the effectiveness” of existing brake system safety requirements. Officially, the FRA announced issuance of two Notices…

Washington, DC – Larry I. Willis, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issues this statement in response to the Federal Railroad Administration rejecting a request from Kansas City Southern Railway to conduct safety-sensitive brake tests in Mexico: “We…