Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 2/12/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Coalition seeks Northeast Corridor funding in Trump's infrastructure plan As President Donald Trump releases his long-awaited infrastructure plan today, a coalition of Northeast business leaders are calling on the president and Congress to provide federal resources to repair and upgrade the…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims' legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims' legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims' legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for…
Rail News Home Federal Legislation & Regulation 2/9/2018 Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation Short-line tax credit extension included in budget bill The budget bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump early this morning includes a one-year extension of the short-line tax credit known as Section 45G, the American Short Line and Regional…
The company's new line-boring equipment is expected to cut the timeline for engine overhauls and increase efficiency. Photo – CNW Group/Ontario Northland Transportation Commission The Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) has obtained new line boring equipment for locomotive overhaul projects.Line boring is a mechanical procedure for overhauling locomotives and other industrial engines. The procedure restores…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The railroad industry is downplaying expectations that a safety technology that could have prevented recent deadly train crashes will be in operation across the country by the end of the year. Indeed, freight and commuter rail officials speak as if there never was any plan to complete their work on the technology…
CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — Federal investigators spent a second day Monday at the site of a deadly train crash in South Carolina, where an Amtrak train was mistakenly sent off a main track and down a side spur - and into a parked freight train. The ensuing crash early Sunday killed two people and injured…
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Only about a quarter of U.S. railroad tracks that carry passenger trains have an anti-crash system that safety officials say could have prevented a fatal weekend crash, even though a year-end deadline to finish installing it is just months away. The technology, known as positive train control, or PTC, is…
CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a parked freight train in the early-morning darkness Sunday after a thrown switch sent it hurtling down a side track, authorities said. Two Amtrak crew members were killed, and more than 100 people were injured. It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in less…