This story originally appeared on Trains.com.
WASHINGTON – BNSF Railway, CSX, and Union Pacific filed lawsuits against the Federal Railroad Administration today for its failure to act on a half dozen safety waiver requests that in some cases would allow railroads to scale back visual inspections in areas where they have deployed new high-tech train and track inspection systems.
The litigation asks federal courts to find FRA’s inaction on waiver requests is “arbitrary and capricious” and in...