(Source: Bloomberg, June 10, 2015)
NEW YORK — Radio interference from freight railroads may disable the automated solution Amtrak is finalizing to prevent high-speed derailments like last month’s fatal accident in Philadelphia. The system that commands trains to slow to avert crashes may not work properly in some locations in the U.S. Northeast because it relies on airwaves that can be blocked by signals from equipment on adjacent freight tracks, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
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