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The GCOR rules are intended to enhance railroad safety. The rules cover employee responsibilities, signaling equipment, procedures for safe train movement, dealing with accidents and other topics that directly and indirectly affect railroad safety. Some railroads modify the GCOR rules to suit their specific operations.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS), founded in 1901, is a labor union representing over 10,000 signal employees across the United States and Canada.These members are responsible for the installation, maintenance, and repair of critical railroad traffic control systems, including signaling equipment, highway-rail grade crossing warning systems, and switching mechanisms.
Operation Lifesaver is a 501(c)(3) educational organization in the United States dedicated to promoting safety at railroad grade crossings and railroad rights-of-way. Operation Lifesaver is the largest rail safety education organization in the United States. [1] It was founded by the Union Pacific Railroad in the early 1970s. [2]
Young people training for railroad careers will benefit from a $2 million federal grant. It was announced Thursday, Jan. 2, by the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission.
The overall picture is that rail safety hasn’t significantly improved in recent years — and as the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine last Feb. 3 and others demonstrate, just one ...
Freight railroad BNSF is generally striving to improve safety on a consistent basis, but that message doesn't always reach front-line workers who often don't feel comfortable reporting safety ...
The rules cover employee responsibilities, signaling equipment, procedures for safe train movement, dealing with accidents and other topics that directly and indirectly affect railroad safety. These rules govern operation on main lines, defined as those with some form of block control system.
In the Show-Me state, the total amount of funding for safety improvements at public crossings is about $7.5 million annually — $6 million from the federal government and roughly $1.5 million ...