Sentences with phrase «national railroad system»

It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.

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Congress enacted the first national railroad safety legislation that year because the companies had insisted it was too expensive to put automatic braking systems and couplers on freight trains.

Where railroads had been obliged to maintain horses and riders every five miles along the track to race back and forth to warn engineers of impending collisions, the «singing wire» could now control the flow of trains, and not incidentally, their cargoes, so that whole new national distribution systems were possible.

The national passenger railroad over the weekend activated its version of so - called positive train control between the two cities, the last stretch of its tracks on the busy Northeast Corridor to get the system.

a project for intercity passenger bus or rail facilities and vehicles, including facilities and vehicles owned by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation and components of magnetic levitation transportation systems; and