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WASHINGTON, August 7, 2025 — The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), representing the nation’s 603 short line freight railroads, announced the 100th cosponsor of H.R. 516 – the Railroad Tax Maintenance Credit Modernization bill. Representatives Adam Gray [D-CA-13], Michael Lawler [R-NY-17], Frank Lucas [R-OK-3], Mary Miller [R-IL-15], Max Miller [R-OH-7], and Kim Schrier [D-WA-8] signed onto the bill on August 5th, joining 96 other bi-partisan cosponsors of a bill that would modernize a successful, decades long public-private partnership and sending the cosponsor count over the symbolic 100 marker.
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2025 — Today, Peter Gilbertson provided testimony to Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines and Safety’s hearing, “On the Right Track: Modernizing America’s Rail Network.” In his testimony, Gilbertson outlined three initiatives that would enable short lines to remain a critical transportation provider to more than 10,000 customers, and a driver of economic growth in small town and rural areas of the United States: robust and predictable federal infrastructure funding, especially through the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) grant program; regulatory reform that is data- and risk-driven, not prescriptive and support for innovation; and new technologies, through streamlined testing, waivers, and investment.
Washington, D.C., August 15, 2025 – ASLRRA has filed responses to the U.S. DOT’s Request for Information (RSI) regarding the National Freight Strategic Plan (DOT-OST-2025-0369). ASLRRA responded to a wide range of questions, providing the short line freight railroad perspective on the most urgent national policies for the 2025 Plan, suggested changes to make the 2025 Plan more impactful, metrics to be used to evaluate multi-modal freight system performance, benefits of investment in transportation, new technologies on the horizon, regulatory barriers to performance and more.
