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2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition
Denver, CO | April 6-8
2025 Railroad Day on
Capitol Hill
Washington, D.C. | May 7
Virtual Reality Courses Now Available: Freight Car Familiarization; Locomotive Daily Inspection; Class I Airbrake Test & Inspection
FRA Drug & Alcohol (Part 219) and DER Roundtable
February 25-27 | San Diego, CA
General Code of Operating Rules (GCOR)
March 11-13 | San Diego, CA
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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 29, 2024 — Today, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) celebrates the announcement of the Fiscal Year 2023 and 2024 Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement (CRISI) grant awards. The Association offers its congratulations and appreciation to the Congressional leaders that created and funded the CRISI program, the FRA personnel that administer the program and select the awards, and the short line railroaders and their partners that applied for and will receive grant awards.
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 16, 2024 — ASLRRA participated in the hearing before the Surface Transportation Board entitled “Growth in the Freight Rail Industry", September 16 and 17, 2024. The hearing’s purpose was to gather information about recent trends and strategies for growth in the freight rail industry. In addition to ASLRRA, five member railroads testified to growth strategies being used on short lines. Click here for oral testimony, including those from five short line railroads.
Washington, D.C., December 3, 2024 – In the ICR, the FRA proposes to add one new form, revise two forms and discontinue a form that is no longer required. ASLRRA supports the proposal for the new form, which would replace the current letter-submission procedure and streamline grant recipients’ requests for authority to incur pre-award costs. The association notes the new form would speed up the time-sensitive process of pre-award authority by ensuring requests are submitted to FRA personnel according to a uniform structure with all necessary information included. ASLRRA has no concerns with the FRA’s proposed updates to the two forms, and discontinuing a form that is no longer required.
