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2025 Annual Conference
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August 27-28 | New Orleans, LA
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Sept. 24, 2:00 p.m. Eastern
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Nov. 14, 1:00 p.m. Eastern
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WASHINGTON, D.C., September 16, 2024 — ASLRRA participated in the hearing before the Surface Transportation Board entitled “Growth in the Freight Rail Industry", September 16 and 17, 2024. The hearing’s purpose was to gather information about recent trends and strategies for growth in the freight rail industry. In addition to ASLRRA, five member railroads testified to growth strategies being used on short lines. Click here for oral testimony, including those from five short line railroads.
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 2024 — The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), representing in the nation’s 600 short line freight railroads, commends Senators Ron Wyden and Mike Crapo and Representatives Mike Kelly and Earl Blumenauer on the introduction of S. 5008 and H.R. 9522 respectively to modify the Railroad Track Maintenance Credit, updating the credit for inflation and allowing expenditures on short line track that has been acquired since 2015 to be included.
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 5, 2024 – ASLRRA joined more than 70 entities in expressing concern with NextNav’s proposed reconfiguring of the Lower 900 MHZ band. Among other points, the parties disagree with NextNav’s contention that the band is underutilized detailing many examples of the industries that depend upon it. The parties also point out their concern with the lack of detail about how NextNav intends to work with current users of Part 15 devices, and ask that the FCC maintain the existing rules to require field testing to ensure coexistence with Part 15 devices.
