WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Rouzer (R-N.C.) has been named chair of the Subcomittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials, House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves (R-Mo.) announced this week.
Rouzer, beginning his sixth term in the House, is one of six chairmen of Transportaiton and Infrasturcture subcommittees chosen this week.
“Having served on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure since I was elected to Congress, I understand the importance the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials has in shaping the integrity and future of our nation’s transportation and supply chain systems,” Rouzer said in a statement. “As the Committee addresses surface transportation reauthorization, I’m eager to begin working with Chairman Graves and my colleagues to bolster our nation’s rail and pipeline infrastructure to improve safety, our energy security, and strengthen America’s economy.”
Rouzer is sponsor of a current bill requiring Amtrak to disclose salary and bonuses for its top executives, as well the criteria for determining those bonuses. That bill, H.R. 192, passed the House earlier this week [see “Bill requiring disclosure …,” Trains News Wire, Jan. 14, 2025].
Omission correction; frequency shift = frequency shift keying, aka FSK
When I first hired on with SPRR Telecom in 1984, SPRR had a long distance fuel pipeline subsidiary known as Southern Pacific Pipeline, (SPPL). I/we under contact, provided SPPL with various telecom spects such as PBX dialphone service to the Tucson, Phx, and El Paso PBX exchanges, frequency shift pipeline monitoring telemetry, and VHF vehicle radio capability with mountain top repeater capability for their own operation as well as access to the RR’s mobile PBX as well. All those functions were distributed for SPPL via SPRR’s transcontinental MW radio system on assigned multiplexed (mux) channels.
The SPPL system was eventually taken over by the then Santa Fe RR due to a failed RR merger. Today, the part of SPPL where I worked now belongs to Kinder-Morgan.