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Overview: This program provided funding for capital projects within the United States to repair, replace, or rehabilitate qualified railroad assets to reduce the state of good repair backlog and improve intercity passenger rail performance.
Legislative Authority: This...
From August 20, 2012, to September 30, 2015, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored this research for the optimization and testing of a non-invasive locomotive retrofit technology, Locomotive Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) dedicated to capturing and converting locomotive waste...
Pursuant to Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) § 211.45, Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Ronald L. Batory has determined that the imminent threat of Tropical Storm Cristobal with possible hurricane force winds, flooding rains, power outages, and coastal flooding...
Between August and October 2018, an initial series of tests with water as lading were conducted at Underwriters Laboratories (UL) in Northbrook, IL, to confirm test and instrumentation setup and baseline PRD performance. In August 2019, a subsequent series of tests using ethanol, a flammable...