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Supporting All ASLRRA Members

Virtual Annual Convention
drew nearly 600 registered
ASLRRA staff represent the short line industry on numerous committees that advise and provide guidance on the attendees, offered 10+ hours of
freight industry including FRA’s Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC), Fatality Analysis of Maintenance-of-Way
Employees and Signalmen (FAMES) Committee, and the Switching Operations Fatality Analysis (SOFA) Working live streamed general session,
Group; and the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (NCUTCD). In addition, staff members promote and delivered 30+ hours of
the short line industry by serving in leadership positions on the Transportation Research Board Committees, League breakout education sessions
of Railway Women and Operation Lifesaver. presented by more than 80
subject matter experts
ASLRRA promoted the interest of short line and regional railroads in critical areas identified by our Technology
Committee, including improved customer service and event reporting, Positive Train Control (PTC), geographic
information systems (GIS), and cyber security. Key to these efforts has been the participation of ASLRRA, along with
member railroad representatives, in a series of workshops intended to identify
2020 ASLRRA Membership: problems related to the reporting of rail events. Due to the impacts of COVID-19, Hosted 36 live webinars, an
977 Members most of the initiatives associated with these workshops have been paused, but increase of 50% over 2019,

21 6 ASLRRA remains actively engaged in the effort to create a new industry-wide
39 with nearly 600 registered
event reporting scorecard. attendees (average 17
attendees per webinar)
ASLRRA provides support to its members on positive train control (PTC),
ensuring that members required to implement met the December 31, 2020
480 deadline. PTC products and services included options for CI-BOS as well as PTC
training for employees, PTC Safety Plan Templates, monitoring the industry’s On Demand Webinar library
431 plans for improving PTC and the use of wireless spectrum (PTC-220 and the offers more than 100
use of the 220 MHz band), and exploring solutions for required excess liability recordings that have
insurance. been accessed by more
than 2,400 individuals to-date

Railroad Members
Supplier Members
Associate Railroad Members
Associate Switching Members Short Line Education Fund
Other received a $12,000 annual Launched Members
donation from the Doug Supporting Veterans page,
www.aslrra.org/veterans
Golden - Mary Cullen
General Counsel Charitable Fund to support and launched a COVID-19
Symposium held via Zoom scholarships for employees of resource page, www.aslrra.
had a record-breaking 82 small railroads org/COVID19
participants

ASLRRA Annual Report 2020