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2015 Regional Meetings

September 15, 2014 The SMART Transportation Division will resume its regional meetings in 2015. Transportation Division officers and staff are currently working on securing locations for the summer of 2015. The regional meetings provide valuable educational opportunities to members and officers [...]

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House bill would cut Amtrak funding

September 15, 2014 The House is proposing a 40 percent funding cut for new Amtrak construction in a new passenger rail bill that was unveiled on Thursday by the chamber’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Amtrak has received about $1 billion per year from the federal government since [...]

Sheet Metal Workers Bring Industries Together to Save Energy, Lives

September 12, 2014 There is a gap of knowledge between professionals who design, fabricate and install duct work and the experts who inspect it after it’s in full operation. Although they work in the same world, they are very different industries with different lingo, protocol, codes and regula [...]

SMART Supports Senate Two-person Crew Provision

September 11, 2014 U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced railroad safety legislation Sept. 10 that continues dialogue on the nation’s rail safety laws. S. 2784, the Rail Safe [...]

Tags Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2014, S. 2784, Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation

SMART TD supports Senate rail crew provision

Tags Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2014, S. 2784, Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation

Senators propose Rail Safety Improvement Act, 2014

September 11, 2014 U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Sept. 10 announced a comprehensive overhaul of rail safety laws and protocols to enforce and enhance safety and reliability following a series of high profile rail catastrophes in New York, Con [...]

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Members defeat BNSF proposal to cut train crew size

September 11, 2014 A tentative agreement to reduce train crew size on one of the nation’s largest rail carriers has failed, according to the labor union whose members voted on it this week. The pact would have eliminated on-board conductors on 60 percent of BNSF Railway, which spans the western [...]

Tags BNSF Railway, crew consist, GO-001, one-person crew, proposed agreement, two-person crews

Teen gets a look at railroad life

September 11, 2014 John Wilson, a student from Howell High School, joined two dozen teens from across the nation to spend a week riding the rails. They weren’t trying out the hobo life; they were participating in Michigan Technological University Rail and Intermodal Transportation Program, part [...]

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Chicago wants tighter rules on crude oil trains

September 10, 2014 Warning that the frequent railroad trains loaded with crude oil passing through the Chicago area are a “serious risk to public safety,” the City Council is calling for tighter restrictions on the shipments than federal officials proposed in July. Council members on Tuesday al [...]

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FRA issues proposal on unintended train movement

September 9, 2014 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that will help protect communities from crude oil and hazardous materials incidents by strengthening requirements for securing [...]

Tags Emergency Order 28, FRA, proposed rule on unintended train movement