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FTA proposes rule to establish transit safety program

August 18, 2015 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a proposed rule to establish a Public Transportation Safety Program under FTA’s new safety oversight authority established by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century [...]

Tags Federal Transit Administration, FTA, MAP 21, safety, Safety Management Systems, SMS

Female engineer inducted into Railroad Hall of Fame

August 18, 2015 When Ramona Dockter was a senior in high school, her brother asked her what she wanted to be. She told him that she wanted to work on the railroad like her father, and she did. For several months, 18-year-old Dockter worked as a brakeman alongside engineers who helped her und [...]

Tags Franky Hoffman, John Risch, Railroad Hall of Fame, Ramona Dockter

UMAC Article On Soccer Moms: The New Face Of Addiction

August 17, 2015 A recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows new demographics of individuals abusing and becoming addicted to heroin in the United States: middle class females. The CDC study shows that more women who identified as “middle clas [...]

Legislative, Alt. Legislative Rep. elections planned

August 17, 2015 Members and SMART Transportation Division (TD) Local officers are reminded elections for the positions of Legislative Representative and Alternate Legislative Representative are being conducted this autumn by all TD Locals, with nominations to be taken at the October 2015 mee [...]

Tags alternate legislative representative, elections, legislative representative, local elections

Feds allow Amtrak police access to emergency radio

August 14, 2015 The feds have agreed to let Amtrak police communicate with cops and firefighters with access to emergency responder radio networks, Sen. Chuck Schumer said. Schumer had denounced what he called a dangerous inability for Amtrak police, like the ones who patrol Penn Station, t [...]

Tags Amtrak, emergency radio access, feds

NJ Transit plans for Pope's U.S. visit

August 14, 2015 New Jersey Transit officials yesterday announced the agency’s plans for operation during the weekend of Sept. 26-27, when Pope Francis visits Philadelphia. The agency will change its regular service to accommodate the estimated 2 million people who are expected to trave [...]

Tags New Jersey Transit, pope visit

Powder river basin coal demand down

August 14, 2015 Nine years ago, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company embarked on a campaign to improve its freight service in and out of the coal-rich Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming. Times were good, the coal industry was booming and BNSF was getting political pressure to [...]

Tags BNSF, coal, investments

U.S. railroads' carloads down 4.4 percent

August 13, 2015 U.S. freight railroad traffic continued its ongoing slump last week, with U.S. railroads reporting a total 562,884 carloads and intermodal units for the week ending Aug. 8, down 0.9 percent compared with the same week last year, according to the Association of American Railro [...]

Tags AAR, carloads down, U.S. railroads

Union Pacific to trim management staff

August 13, 2015 Union Pacific Railroad said yesterday that it plans to eliminate “several hundred” management jobs in Omaha and elsewhere in the coming months, as the Class I addresses falling cargo volume, according to a report on Omaha.com. The job cuts, which will come from &# [...]

Tags management layoffs, UP

Operation Lifesaver awards $204k for safety campaigns

August 13, 2015 Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI), in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), announced more than $200,000 in grants to 13 State Operation Lifesaver programs for a variety of highway-rail grade crossing safety public education projects, in conjunction with t [...]

Tags Federal Highway Administration, FHWA, OLI, Operation Lifesaver, safety, See Tracks? Think Train!