We Need Your ‘Nose For News’! When you see rail-related news stories, op-eds, editorials, or letters to the editor in your communities, send them along to us! We include them in our social media efforts, along with the weekly Hotline. Send your news items to Bob Brady, bbrady@xenophonstrategies.com, and we will continue to share it with the membership. Are you holding a rally, a community meeting, or another kind of rail-advocacy event? We can help spread the word if you send them to us. We can put on the website here. And please follow NARP on Facebook and Twitter. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report on the Amtrak Cascades derailment in DuPont, WA and said that the accident could have been prevented through the use of Positive Train Control (PTC), a technology that can remotely monitor, slow and stop trains that are speeding. The report said, “In this accident, PTC would have notified the engineer of train 501 about the speed reduction for the curve; Continue reading...
