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22 Nov 2006

Safety Advisories

Recommends that each railroad operating passenger trains assess the rules, instructions, and procedures used to ensure that a train will not depart a station until all passengers successfully board or alight from the train, and ensure compliance with such

Subject Highway-Rail Grade Crossings, Operating Practices, Passenger Rail

Keywords: alighting; boarding

Safety Advisory Number
2006-05

4 May 2006

Safety Advisories

Provides interested parties information related to the potential failure of the welded attachment of vertical load dividers on certain center beam lumber flat cars

Subject Motive Power and Equipment

Keywords: center beam flat cars ; C-beam ; F-281 ; lumber

Safety Advisory Number
2006-03

8 Mar 2006

Safety Advisories

Provides recommended practices for the testing, classification, and reuse of second-hand rail. The purpose of the safety advisory is to reduce the number of rail defects that occur when second-hand rail is used.

Subject Rail and Infrastructure Integrity, Track

Keywords: broken rail ; NTSB ; precipitation of internal hydrogen

Safety Advisory Number
2006-02

8 Mar 2006

Safety Advisories

Provides the industry additional information on the potential catastrophic failure of certain railroad freight car side frame castings manufactured by National Castings of Mexico's (NCM) Sahagun, Mexico facility and Buckeye Steel Castings' (Buckeye)

Subject Motive Power and Equipment

Keywords: side frames; bolster; crack ; derailment ; critical load bearing

Safety Advisory Number
2006-01

18 Nov 2005

Emergency Orders

This notice amends Emergency Order No. 24 (EO 24) in response to informal comments received from railroads and labor organizations. This amendment provides additional guidance, clarifying amendments and expanded relief from the EO.

Subject Track

Emergency Order Number
Emergency Order 24, Notice No. 2