Central & Pacific Region
Dallas, TX | October 28-30
General Counsel Symposium and Finance & Admin Seminar
Dallas, TX | October 28-30
2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition
Denver, CO | April 6-8
Virtual Reality Courses Now Available: Freight Car Familiarization; Locomotive Daily Inspection; Class I Airbrake Test & Inspection
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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., October 14, 2024 – ASLRRA and AAR filed comments in response to the FRA's Notice of Information Collection dated September 17, 2024. The associations stated that FRA underestimates the annual reporting burden by excluding job briefings from its burden estimate and says that OMB should require FRA to reassess it burden estimate with job briefings included in the burden estimate.