February 27, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, February 27, 2018) NEW YORK — The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board of Directors plans to consider the approval of a contract with Wabtec Railway Electronics, Inc. at its March 1 meeting to complete a federally-mandated...
February 23, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by William C. Vantuono, February 16, 2018) NEW YORK — The railroad industry is making steady progress implementing Positive Train Control. You wouldn’t know it though, if you believed some of the choreographed histrionics the House...
February 21, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB, Positive Train Control
(Source: The State opinion column by NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt, February 20, 2018) COLUMBIA, S.C. — Although the investigation is ongoing into the tragic Amtrak passenger train crash in Cayce, we knew immediately that a rail switch had been improperly set,...
February 20, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Editorial at the Bergen Record, February 18, 2018) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — Amtrak has just increased the urgency to install positive train control throughout the NJ Transit system. If NJ Transit does not make the Dec. 31 deadline, Amtrak will not let the...
February 16, 2018 | FRA, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, February 15, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it is accepting applications for $73 million in grant funding for...
February 16, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: The Hill, February 15, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel of lawmakers on Thursday admonished the nation’s railroads and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to meet a fast-approaching deadline to enact a key train safety feature that could have prevented...
February 16, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Bergen Record, February 15, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak’s CEO said Thursday that it would not allow railroads such as NJ Transit to operate over its tracks after Dec. 31 if they did not have a required safety system in place by then. Tens of...
February 16, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Reuters, February 15, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chair of a congressional committee on Thursday urged U.S. railroads and transit agencies to meet a looming deadline to install an anti-crash technology called positive train control after a series of recent...
February 16, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Seattle Times, February 15, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak will stop running trains on some U.S. tracks if they don’t have satellite-based train control operating by the end of this year, CEO Richard Anderson told a congressional committee Thursday morning....
February 16, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: ABC News, February 15, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Several railroads will likely fail to meet congressionally-mandated deadlines for installation of Positive Train Control, technology that could have prevented at least 23 deaths and more than 300 injuries over...
