PUBLIC HEARING
September 13-15, 1999
Chicago, IL
Member
George Black will preside at a public hearing in Chicago from September
13 through 15 into the fatal grade crossing accident at Bourbonnais, Illinois,
on March 15, 1999. Eleven passengers on Amtrak train No. 59, the City of
New Orleans, were killed and 122 persons were injured when the train struck
a tractor semitrailer.
The safety issues expected to be discussed are:
- The effectiveness and reliability of current active railroad grade
crossing warning devices,
- State, Federal, and Amtrak safety oversight programs,
- Train/truck interface in grade crossing safety, and
- New technologies in grade crossing safety.
Parties to the hearing include:
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
- Canadian National/Illinois Central Railroad
- Federal Railroad Administration
- Federal Highway Administration
- Illinois Commerce Commission
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
- United Transportation Union
- Melco Transfer, Inc.
Witness List
Opening Statement
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