Funding Awards 2013-2014 Fiscal Year:

Approved Continuing Project Support (Applicant and Project Purpose):

Rail Related Labor Unions – Non-political leadership and administrative training and instructional programs as well as an administrative computer equipment support program in the United States and Canada.

Approved Projects Carried Over from the 2012-2013 Fiscal Year (Applicant and Project Purpose):

North Carolina Transportation Museum – To assist with the development of a dynamic exhibit on the use of railroad signals and how they operated.

Medina County (Ohio) Safety Task Force – To assist the County with the improvement of two rail grade crossings located in Westfield and Lafayette Townships.

Wilmington & Western Railroad (Historic Red Clay Valley, Inc.) – To assist the organization in producing a set of new outdoor interpretive panels that will explain the history and function of their historic structures.

Center for Rail Photography & Art – To assist the Center with biographical research and catalog production of the exhibit entitled "Faces of Chicago's Railroad Community: Photographs by Jack Delano" scheduled to open on April 5, 2014 at the Chicago History Museum, a project partner. The exhibit will highlight subjects of photos taken in 1942-1943 by Delano who had worked for the U.S. Office of War Information and its predecessor, the FSA. The exhibit will identify each subject's railroad work, will track their descendants, will develop a biography and timeline of their lives and will demonstrate how railroad workers lives are weaved within the fabric of the United States.

Approved New Project Support (Applicant and Project Purpose):

The B&O Railroad Museum – To assist in the development of a permanent Railroad Safety & Symbols educational exhibit within the Musuem's roundhouse. The exhibit will focus on railway safety, he history of rail safety and the people responsible for keeping railwaysand the public safe.