Railroad Day in Sacramento

Today was Railroad Day in Sacramento. Members of the California Short Line Railroad Association met with many legislators to discuss the importance of freight rail in the Golden State. I invite you to join the conversation online using #CARailDay. Here are some rail facts and figures, as well as sample messages for sharing on Twitter or Facebook.

·         25 freight railroads operate across California’s 4,800 + track miles and haul over 162.3 million tons of freight across the state annually.

·         The train accident rate has fallen 23% over the last decade.

·         Railroads can move a ton of freight 479 miles per gallon of fuel, double what was possible in 1980.

·         California has about 8,150 freight rail employees. Freight railroads support about 1.1 million jobs across the country.

·         Today’s freight railroads use big data and smart sensors to spot patterns and predict problems before they happen.

·         The typical locomotive, for example, contains supercomputers that can process a billion data points per second.

Freight railroads in California spare our overcrowded roads 9 million truck trips each year, saving taxpayers money and reducing greenhouse gases. #freightrailworks

Pleased to learn how railroads are using tech — using #BigData, #drones & #machinevisioning — to enhance safety & efficiency. #InfrastructureMatters

#DYK – freight railroads are operating tech that can remotely stop a train & prevent accidents on over 80% of miles w/ passengers or hazmat & will be at 100% by 2020. #railtech

Presentations (require user/password):
ROSB-General-Presentation-RHG-edits-rev-6-2-2018v2.pdf
CFMPCASLrail-association_v3.pdf
CSLRA-presentation-Mark.pdf
CSLRA-Sacramento-2019-Sponsor-and-Intro.pdf
GoRail-CSLRA_2019.pdf