FRA delays deadline for emergency breathing equipment for train crews

FRA delays deadline for emergency breathing equipment for train crews

WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration has delayed by a year the deadline to comply with a rule requiring railroads to provide emergency breathing devices in the cab of locomotives on trains carrying hazardous materials that pose an inhalation danger. In a notice published earlier this month, the FRA said it was delaying the deadline “in response to concerns raised in a joint petition for reconsideration, as well as FRA’s own investiga…