Today, FRA issued a Safety Advisory on hot bearing detectors—calling on railroads to take actions to improve the use, inspection, & maintenance of such devices. This is one of several actions being taken to advance freight rail safety. bit.ly/3EKoqI8
@USDOTFRA So ,really getting tough FRA# You nicely ask railroads to adopt safety measures the FRA director advised in 2015 ,and did nothing .So now in 2023 ,You Ask Them Again! Why not require train to stop at first detection,and use Tempil Stick like they used to do before PrecisionRailRd
@USDOTFRA "there are no Federal regs requiring the use of HBDs for trains, or any regulations related to the inspection, calibration, and maintenance of this equipment," ...and that is your problem. Do your job, require them to be installed & maintained.
@USDOTFRA Looking for thermal (heat) defects will only catch something right before it is about to fail catastrophically. You need to require acoustic detectors on lines that carry more than 7 MGT annually. They find defects long before it is too late.
@USDOTFRA Nice to see this but looking at the recent Florida derailment perhaps we should start from the bottom aka the roadbed and use modern technology.
@USDOTFRA Too little too late