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Ronnie Rhodes reelected General Chairman of UP-Central GCA

  CLEVELAND, October 28 — Ronnie E. Rhodes was reelected by acclamation to his second full term as General Chairman at the Union Pacific-Central Region General Committee of Adjustment’s quadrennial meeting in Little Rock, Ark., October 21-22, 2015. All...

Short-term funding measure includes PTC deadline extension

  HR 1763 is expected to be marked up this week. House GOP leaders late last week unveiled a measure that would extend federal transportation funding for three weeks. The current legislation is set to expire on Thursday. The extension would enable House leaders...

IDOT Public Meetings

Reminder remaining schedule: IDOT Announces Multi-Year Program Public Meetings Illinois Transportation Secretary Randy Blankenhorn announced that the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is asking the public to participate in meetings being held throughout the...

FRA announces new track safety standards following CSX derailment

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Acting Administrator Sarah Feinberg announced this morning that broken rail was the cause of a CSX Transportation/Plains All American crude-oil train derailment in West Virginia earlier this year. She also announced steps to...

Bill introduced to extend PTC deadline

10/1/2015 The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s leadership yesterday introduced a bipartisan bill that would extend the deadline for railroads to implement positive train control (PTC) technology through the end of 2018. The bill would extend...