Jamie Foster

US Transportation Command is soliciting industry feedback regarding a potential requirement to provide rail terminal operations and rail maintenance at Military Ocean Terminal Concord in California. They have asked that we pass along this opportunity to the CSLRA member companies.

This Request for Information is posted to FedBizOpps (FBO.gov) with replies due by March 7th, 2018. The FedBizOpps solicitation # is TRANSCOM18R007. A direct link to the page can be found below:

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=dffab3492dcff42ed9bbbdde23bb32e6&tab=core&_cview=0

Any questions about the solicitation or requirement should be addressed directly to the contracting officers listed on the solicitation post.

US TRANSCOM looks forward to hearing any feedback that CSLRA companies would be willing to provide.

Solicitation Summary (PDF)

Catherine Taylor, director of the Bullock Texas State History Museum and a longtime leader at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, has died after a brief illness.

Obituary (January 12, 2018)

The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association’s “Railroad Day on Capitol Hill” has proven to be a very effective way to get our message to the U.S. Congress. The size of the event, the geographical diversity of the participants, and the unified railroad industry message has focused Congress on our issues like never before.

NEW DAY – Wednesday
NEW HOTEL – Washington Marriott Marquis
NEW CLOSING EVENT – Union Station
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Washington Marriott Marquis
900 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC

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