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News Wire: DOT formally rescinds ECP brake rule

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 11:24 AM

WASHINGTON — The Department of Transportation late on Dec. 4 made it official, and rescinded a rule that tank trains carrying flammable commodities must be equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes. The decision seemed inevitab...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/12/05-ecp-brake-rule

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine

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