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- Documents
- Public Inspection
Publication date
Type
- Rule 25
- Proposed Rule 16
- Notice 12
Topic
- Reporting and recordkeeping requirements 31
- Railroad safety 23
- Penalties 20
- Administrative practice and procedure 9
- Incorporation by reference 8
Section
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Agency
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Grade Crossing Signal System Safety
officer is stationed at the crossing to warn highway traffic of approaching trains, each train must stop before entering the crossing to permit a crewmember … The original proposal would have required a train to stop before entering a...
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Highway Safety Programs; Determination of Effectiveness
school bus safety measures and publishing a number of rulemaking actions, such as a final rule requiring new school buses to be equipped with a stop signal … requirements for school bus emergency exits and improving access to school
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Passenger Equipment Safety Standards
Presence of at-grade rail crossings; (3) Type of protection at highway grade crossings; (4) Number of at-grade rail crossings; (5) Current and projected … density, signal system, grade crossings and grade
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FOX High Speed Rail Safety Standards
track crossings in areas where operating speeds reach 100 mph to locations where designated track crossing devices are installed. The track crossing devices … at-grade crossings. Animal and non- Railroad equipment
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Review of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations; Regulatory Removals and Substantive Amendments
CMVs to stop before crossing any railroad tracks at grade. Connecticut said it has recently established a committee to study highway-rail crossing matters … including, among other things, the requirement for school buses to
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Passenger Equipment Safety Standards
control systems, and grade crossing safety. FRA also has existing regulations governing both railroad and grade crossing signal system safety, for example … automatically combined to stop the train. If the secondary brakes are unavailable, the blended brake uses the...
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Hours of Service of Drivers; Driver Rest and Sleep for Safe Operations
concerning the performance of bus drivers suffering from fatigue, the FMCSA could find no research studies on which to distribute bus drivers subject to FMCSA … truck stops, the Belzer et al. (1999) survey probably does not capture a representative sample of local...
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Statement of Agency Policy Concerning Jurisdiction Over the Safety of Railroad Passenger Operations and Waivers Related to Shared Use of the Tracks of the General Railroad System by Light Rail and Conventional Equipment
Mail Stop 10, Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: 202-493-6029) or David H. Kasminoff, Trial Attorney, FRA, RCC-12, 1120 Vermont Avenue, NW., Mail Stop 10, … train stop and speed control). CBTI also contended that FRA is proposing to adopt a double standard, since...
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National Standards for Traffic Control Devices; Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways
In Section 2C.37 Crossing Signs, a new design and application for advance crossing and crossing signs is added. In the past, the crossing signs were distinguished … amendment to Section 2B.05 STOP Sign...
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Control of Alcohol and Drug Use: Proposed Application of Random Testing and Other Requirements to Employees of a Foreign Railroad Who Are Based Outside the United States and Perform Train or Dispatching Service in the United States; Request for Comment on Even Broader Application of Rules and on Implementation Issues
Control of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the Railway Industry. In that survey, 1,000 randomly-selected Canadian railway workers, including train employees, were … individuals in the railway industry have necessarily used illegal drugs while at work, a substantial number...
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Conforming the Federal Railroad Administration's Accident/Incident Reporting Requirements to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Revised Reporting Requirements; Other Amendments
Transportation Communications International Union/Brotherhood Railway Carmen (TCIU/BRC); Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and Illinois Central Railroad Company … Employees (BMWE); The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF); Canadian Pacific...
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U.S. Locational Requirement for Dispatching of U.S. Rail Operations
apply to individual railways, and in other cases the rules apply in common to the major railways. Under Transport Canada's Railway Safety Management Systems … mistakenly cleared a grade crossing for normal operations, resulting in a...
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Conforming the Federal Railroad Administration's Accident/Incident Reporting Requirements to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Revised Reporting Requirements; Other Amendments
Transportation Communications International Union/Brotherhood Railway Carmen (TCIU/BRC); Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and Illinois Central Railroad Company … Employes (BMWE); The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF); Canadian Pacific...
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Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
and private highway-rail grade crossings. Of those crossings, more than 153,000 are public at-grade crossings—those crossings in which a public road crosses … at crossings with whistle bans than at other
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Control of Alcohol and Drug Use: Expanded Application of FRA Alcohol and Drug Rules to Foreign Railroad Foreign-Based Employees Who Perform Train or Dispatching Service in the United States
hearing, FRA heard testimony from the Canadian National Railway Company (CN), the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP), and two Canadian counterparts of American … Commission found cross-border trucking and bus operations to be “a special case” under which Canadian...
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Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
of the crossing, the crossing is considered a public crossing for purposes of this part. The definition of public highway-rail grade crossing has been … grade crossings. (a) Definitions.—As used in this section—...
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Hours of Service of Drivers
per day. Because rest stops are found only at discrete points along the highway, though, it will generally be impractical to stop exactly at 10 hours—meaning … CONTACT: Tom Yager, Chief, Driver and Carrier Operations Division, Office of Bus and Truck Standards and...
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Railroad Grade Crossing Safety; Withdrawal
completely through a grade crossing without stopping, such as a stop sign or other traffic control device beyond the crossing in close proximity to the … roadway beyond the crossing. The agency also noted that
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Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
has stopped in close proximity to a public highway-rail grade crossing. Trains and locomotives may stop in close proximity to public grade crossings during … railroad carriers operating over a crossing or
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Railroad Operating Rules: Program of Operational Tests and Inspections; Railroad Operating Practices: Handling Equipment, Switches and Derails
protect crossings to prevent easily avoidable accidents. The proposed rule considers the crossing protected if a crossing has working crossing gates and … operations are permitted at highway-rail grade crossings,...