Road transport requires an extensive network of well-maintained paved roads and trains require railroads and stations along the whole length of the track.

The Hepburn Act authorized the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission to require railroads to charge "just and reasonable" rates.

But transportation and safety officials said that since there are no Federal or state regulations requiring railroads to install protective fencing along the country's 280,000 miles of track, it may be impossible to assign blame for Justin James Rodriguez's death.

The Supreme Court added a further decision upholding the law in its next term in a case involving a North Carolina statute requiring railroads to maintain records of liquor shipments and recipients.

Addressing the Justices in a low-key, almost conversational style, he defended Federal regulations requiring railroads to test the blood and urine of workers whose trains are involved in specific types of accidents.

D1 Labor laws do not require railroads to bargain with their employees before seeking to impose drug testing, the Supreme Court ruled.

The only real way to avoid that grim possibility - and the frightening likelihood of mass casualties that could come with it - is to require railroads to route dangerous chemicals away from densely populated areas.

Defeat of the Confederacy required vast supplies of munitions, as well as railroads (and telegraph lines) to deliver the goods.

Torn between the need to delay the enemy and the thought that tomorrow they might require bridges and railroads themselves for a return to the offensive, the French left destruction of communications to the latest possible moment, sometimes too late.

In 1933, the RLEA secured an amendment to the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act (ERTA) of 1933 which required national railroads to limit layoffs due to consolidation.