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Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastruct ....
These cable providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next a house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hears testimony from amtrak c. E. O. Steven gardner and the executive director of the northwest Corridor Commission on improving Train Service and efficiency. They also discuss passenger safety, route options in the midwest and west coast and high speed rail. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair may call recess at any time. Without objection, so ordered. I recognize myself for Opening Statement for fi ....
Acts of power exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. We have the exact equipment used in the civil war. We present a bottom up history of the b and o railroad. Technologies and the people involved. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting the rail. They were building bridge part. Loading things on trains. As the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, loaded on a car and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the First Military and political objective of the war. Cop that playing good cop through the state of maryland. Robert e. Lee gave specific instructions to his field theanders do not harm b o railroad. We ....
It coincides with the American Civil War sesquicentennial. Anduns for five years changes each year to address that your of the war. Interesting aspect of our exhibit is the fact that we are one location that many of the events took place in these exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad in the civil war. We present a bottom up history of the b o railroad. We present the technologies and the people involved guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops, carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting the rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts. Continuously loading things on trains. As the confederates would damage a section of track, or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out, pull out the damage, load it on a car and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the ....
That year of the war. The interesting aspect of the exhibit is the fact that we are on location, that many of the events that took place with the b o railroad were in this exact area. We have the very equipment used by the railroad during the civil war, and we present a bottom up history of the railroad during the civil war by presenting the technologies and the people that were involved with riding, guarding, destroying, building, and operating the railroad during the civil war years. This would be an entire area of activity. There were paint shops. There were carpentry shops, car shops. They were casting of rail. There were machine shops. They were building bridge parts, rails, continuously loading these things on trains. And, as the confederates would damage a section of track or blow up a bridge, the repair crews would go out. They would pull out damage. Theyd load it on the cars, bring it back here, and recycle it. I firmly believe that at the outbreak of the war, the first 90 day ....