August 30, 2024 | FRA, News, Positive Train Control, Top News
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sided with the BLET on August 26 when it denied a joint waiver request by five railroads seeking to change operating rules in the event of unplanned Positive Train Control (PTC) outages. The BLET filed formal written comments...
August 26, 2024 | News, Positive Train Control, Top News
The BLET has called out five railroads for a backdoor attempt to make changes to Positive Train Control operating rules without going through proper regulatory channels. Each railroad has in place FRA-approved Positive Train Control Safety Plans (PTCSP), which dictate...
March 28, 2024 | Derailment, Headlines, NS, NTSB, Positive Train Control
(Source: Associated Press, march 26, 2024) The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the circumstances the National...
November 2, 2023 | Headlines, NTSB, Positive Train Control
(Source: Associated Press, November 1, 2023) The automatic braking system railroads were required to install several years ago needs improvement to better prevent collisions, federal safety investigators said in a report Wednesday. The National Transportation Safety...
May 4, 2023 | FRA, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, May 2, 2023) Railroads now must seek Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) approval before temporarily disabling their Positive Train Control (PTC) systems during infrastructure upgrades or capital projects, according to a...
January 11, 2023 | Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Trains Magazine, January 10, 2023) Implementing positive train control was a long, costly process for the railroad industry. Now that it’s in place, the people who know it best — the communications and signal specialists — are finding there are a lot of...
December 16, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Freight Waves, December 15, 2022) Railroads and unions gave conflicting views during a hearing by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on a proposed rulemaking that would require freight trains generally to have at least two crew members in the...
August 25, 2022 | Canada, CN, Derailment, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Railway Age, August 24, 2022) The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is calling for Transport Canada and the Canadian rail industry to expedite the implementation of automated train control systems and to develop and implement formal crew resource...
May 11, 2022 | 2-man Crews, BNSF, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 11, 2022) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Service and labor issues are generally the defining issues for current public appearances by railroad officials, and so it was Tuesday when BNSF Railway CEO Katie Farmer spoke to the North American Rail...
February 1, 2022 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Associated Press, January 31, 2022) BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority has reallocated $500 million in operating costs to invest in one-time projects, thanks to a steady influx of federal emergency relief funds that have given the agency...
