The Surface Transportation Board (STB) was created with the ICC Termination Act of 1995 as a successor agency to the Interstate Commerce Commission, which was created in 1887.
The Surface Transportation Investment Act (STIA) provided $78 billion over five years for multimodal surface transportation, rail, freight, and safety programs.
The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, commonly known as the Taft-Hartley Act, amended the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA), limiting labor unions’ activities and influence.
The Tangiwai train disaster, which occurred at about 10:21 p.m. on December 24, 1953, near Tangiwai on the North Island, is New Zealand’s worst rail accident.
Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor of Patterson, New Jersey, built The General for $8,850. It entered service on the Western & Atlantic Railroad in January 1856.
