January 9, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Chicago Tribune, January 5, 2018) CHICAGO — In its lab, Metra has recreated a microcosm of the entire PTC communications system, including trackside communications, back office systems, onboard computers, communications and software. It allows Metra to test...
January 5, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB, Positive Train Control
(Source: Reuters, January 4, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The damage from a deadly Amtrak train crash in Washington state in December topped $40.4 million, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report on Thursday. The safety board also said...
January 3, 2018 | Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Associated Press, December 22, 2017) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly 300 people have died in train crashes that could have been prevented if railroads across the U.S. implemented critical speed-control technology that federal safety investigators have been pushing...
January 3, 2018 | Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Reuters, January 2, 2017) WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao urged the nation’s railroads and transit agencies to take all possible measures to meet deadlines to install a safety system called positive train control (PTC) to...
January 3, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Editorial in USA Today, December 25, 2017) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three people were killed and dozens injured last week in a horrific Amtrak derailment near Seattle — an accident that might have been prevented by a safety system that Congress mandated nine years...
