Reported by Marybeth Luczak for Railway Age
The Association of American Railroads (AAR), on behalf of its members, “requests relief required” to participate in the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) Program, the FRA reported in the Federal Register’s Oct. 3 edition.
All Class I railroads, through the AAR, committed to joining C3RS in March 2023 and have been working with FRA to make program adjustments they feel are necessary. AAR President and CEO Ian Jefferies explained the railroads’ commitment in a March 2, 2023, letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who in Feb. 27, 2023, letters to the individual railroads requested that they join C3RS, following the Norfolk Southern (NS) train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO also urged the Class I railroads to participate.