Railfanning.org News Wire

The federal rules governing when a locomotive engineer sounds the horn have taken another turn.

The federal government dropped an appeal that attempted to again block federal funding for the Gateway tunnel and other infrastructure projects in the region just weeks after asking a federal court to overturn a lower decision that found the funding freeze flagrantly violated law.

Two senior House Democrats say the Federal Railroad Administration is not holding Class I railroads to the transparency rules attached to a safety waiver it granted them last year.