Railroad regulators to train 163 inspectors to spot cracks in railroad bridges, up from 7

Currently, there are only seven federal railway employees trained to evaluate bridges, although their basic responsibility is to review the inspection plan for each railway to ensure that they have a good plan in place and will not change. But this step will train more people to discover structural problems on railways while searching the paths. Both federal and state inspectors will be trained.

“The Trump administration fulfills its promises to make the government more efficient and maintain the safety of travelers,” said Transport Minister Sean Duffy. “Benefiting from the current workforce dedicated to improving the supervision of the integrity of the railway bridge is another victory in the proper category of Americans.”

Jared Cassiti, the National Safety Director of the largest rail-rail-TD, has agreed that the presence of more people who were trained to discover bridge problems is good, but these inspectors still have more than 70,000 railways there throughout the country for evaluation.

“The integrity of the railway system depends on many components, but few of them are very important for the public, men and women that we represent as an integrity of the trade of American trains in bridges,” said Cassiti, whose union represents the conductors.

Due to the presence of very few bridge inspectors in the FBI management, about 10 % of the American railways have not been checked in bridge management programs even 15 years after entering the safety of the bridge safety. But this issue is primarily in the smaller short railway. The Federal Railways Department said that the largest railway lines that offer more than 90 % of the country’s shipping have been all audited regularly.

But there is still a high -level railway bridge that collapses like the bridge in Montana two years ago, which sent a train that transported petroleum products to the Yellowston River, which sent the tar balls in the direction of the river course that had to be cleaned. The railway bridge in the state of Oregon, which is kept by a short railway earlier this year under a train-after three years of fire.

congress asked for railways to maintain confidential bridges inspection reports due to fears that the terrorist can use them to determine weak bridges. There are provisions of the law that allow government and local officials to request reports, but these officials often complained that it is still difficult to obtain this information.

The American Railways Group Association said this step to get more inspectors will help ensure the safe railways.

“This important step completes the safety management programs of comprehensive bridges in this industry and strict inspections, which will increase the health of thousands of railways that keep our economy to the rest of the structural standpoint and are properly preserved,” said the association’s spokeswoman Jessica Kahannik.