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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal Regarding the FRA and STB, don't they have a different degree of oversight for those rail lines that do not connect with the interstate rail network? The White Pass & Yukon comes to mind. It may be that separate legislation would be needed to allow the broad gauge network to be free of some of the FRA rules that constrain the standard gauge network. [/quote] I can't see what,, the legislation is there to ensure safety, so removing some of this legislation would make them more dangerous. What specifically are you referring to? [/quote] Sometimes federal agencies tend to exist more for continual rule making rather than massaging better efficiencies. So many of the FRA regs seem to be based on arbitrary inputs, such as the 79 mph max. Why 79? Why not 85 mph? What was (is) the reason for settling for 79 mph? Was there some peer reviewed study that showed it would be more dangerous for trains to travel 85 mph rather than 79 mph over CTC controlled trackage? Is there any hard evidence of this difference in the safety factor? It may be that classifying a stand alone broad gauge rail network as a completely separate transportation mode will allow for a more natural evolution of the technology, free of constraining regulations. Perhaps it can be shown that modern technology can produce it's own safety parameters, which would be based on hard current data, not 1940's data.
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