(Source: McClatchy News Service, May 25, 2017)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Four of the nation’s commuter railroads are not on track to meet an end-of-next-year deadline to fully implement a collision-avoidance system Congress required nearly a decade ago. Three of the country’s largest freight railroads will not be able to finish their systems until 2020, according to reports filed this month with the Federal Railroad Administration. That’s in spite of lawmakers extending the original deadline for completing positive train control, originally December 2015, to December 2018.
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