Re: Safety Issues

The FRA does have a voluntary reporting program, now in its pilot phase. [railroads.dot.gov] This was discussed at a Heritage Rail annual meeting in Santa Fe (Nov 2018?) I understand it was modeled after the FAA program, and may be managed by NASA as that program is.

As one of the guys helping Dan with the FRA inspection of Eureka, the FRA guys knew what they were doing, and what they were looking for, and made lots of suggestions durring their inspection. Eureka is back together, but we need to correct some minor things like side bearing clearance on one tender truck and installing a air dump valve on the tender... The wash out plugs are still out while Dan waits for the boiler to fully dry (not hard in Vegas...)

Saturday we will be back to work on Elsa...

Randy Hees

Director, Nevada State Railroad Museum, Boulder City, retired
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