Including joel sabat, ron batory from the federal railroad administration. Ray martinez, administrator of the Safety Administration and heidi king from the national Highway Safety traffic system. The fix of the american act, better known as the fast act is responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System including fmcsa, nhtsa and fra. Todays hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of the fast act. And to identify issues that this committee should consider as we prepare for a surface transportation reauthorization. The fast act established the infraGrant Program. This and others such as build grants formerly tiger grants are critical to improving our nations transportation infrastructure. I hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on improving the infrastructure and how intra, and bill grants are being utilized. As they reauthorize the fast act, i plan to work with cantwell and other members on both s
Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth
That year of the war. The interesting aspect of the exhibit is the fact that we are on location, that many of the events that took place with the b o railroad were in this exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad during the civil war, and we present a bottom up history of the railroad during the civil war by presenting the technologies and the people that were involved with riding, guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops. There were carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting of rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts, rails, continuously loading these things on trains. And, as the confederates would damage a section of track or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out. They would pull out damage. Theyd load it on the cars, bring it back here, and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 day
And plug. The. Three groups starting november third on d w. Hour trip will take us from the deep south of the United States to the east coast. Majestic locomotives will power through diverse landscapes will meet local characters go from the sunni towns to the bustling metropolis. Well visit places of great importance in American History and discover small events that shape everyday life. The main character of our american adventure is the train that makes its daily jang from the gulf of mexico to the atlantic get ready to climb aboard that passenger. My. Im i thank. You. New orleans the birthplace of jazz its a vibrant city on the mississippi delta with something for everyone the president meets the past. With its population of around four hundred thousand new orleans is not a notch city by american standards but its vibrant and loud. Was Freight Trains with a hundred or more cars run right along the river bank they take several minutes to pass through. But the wait is worth it. Get ba
A new technique promises to turn the potential pollutant into a source of clean fuel. Some fire a company in dresden has developed a way of using that otherwise harmful gas to produce an eco friendly fluid called blue crude. On its own its already an alternative to fossil fuel. But a further steps can produce other products like diesel or aviation fuel. A diesel is a synthetic fuel which hardly has any emissions its a groundbreaking but there are concerns as keep craft. And there are concerns from some quarters that approving our kind of fuel would hamper the development of immobility. We dont believe that we believe both can be used alongside each other. But as long as something one hampers the other then it will be extremely difficult to succeed with this technology. Extreme shares your focus is on. A process known as electrolysis allow surplus electricity from renewable sources to be transformed into a synthetic fuel. Synthetic fuels like a diesel dont require new infrastructure tan