ALEXANDRA, Va. — Positive train control is now fully operational on the Virginia Railway Express system, a milestone achieved Thursday (April 11) when all 32 VRE trains on the Fredericksburg and Manassas lines ran with PTC in operation. “The implementation of PTC takes system safety to the next level,” VRE CEO Doug Allen said in […]
SEATTLE — Positive train control is now fully operational on the route of the Amtrak Cascades, the Washington state Department of Transportation has announced. However, there is still no date for returning Cascades trains to the Point Defiance bypass south of Tacoma, Wash. Seattle TV station KIRO reports PTC equipment is now in place from […]
Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) is requesting detailed answers from Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson about February’s signal failure at Chicago Union Station. More than 100,000 Amtrak and Metra passengers had trips disrupted by the Feb. 28 signal problems at Chicago Union Station. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — The chairman of the House subcommittee on railroads is […]
NEW YORK — Operational changes and positive train control issues were discussion topics at a recent joint meeting of Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road committees. Specifically: ● The Long Island Rail Road revealed changes for its New York Penn Station Lower Level Concourse; a previous joint NJ Transit/Amtrak announcement of reworked space on the […]
NEW YORK — Concerned by delays in the installation of positive train control on New York MTA’s two commuter railroads, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer has called for the Federal Railroad Administration to step in and oversee PTC installation on the Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road. “To know that the $1 billion dollar project I […]
Union Pacific’s LOA32 local finishes up its day passing the now-removed Lemon Avenue wig-wag in Anaheim California on July 6, 2018. Charles Freericks ANAHEIM, Calif. – The era of the wig-wag signal in Southern California made a step closer to its conclusion with the removal of Union Pacific’s Lemon Avenue crossing signal in Anaheim in […]
Brown, rusted rails on the lower-level tracks at NJ Transit’s Lindenwold, N.J., station attest to the lack of activity on the commuter railroad’s Atlantic City Line, closed since September 2018. Service will be restored in May, NJ Transit has announced. Ralph Spielman NEWARK, N.J. — The long wait for restoration of service on NJ Transit’s […]
WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration today released a status update regarding railroads’ self-reported progress toward full implementation of positive train control systems as of Dec. 31, 2018. All required railroads either met the Dec. 31, 2018, statutory deadline for fully implementing PTC systems, or submitted requests demonstrating they met or exceeded the statutory criteria […]
OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific has installed positive train control equipment on 100 percent of required route miles and implemented the technology on all required passenger train routes. Implementation efforts continue to ensure PTC interoperability with other freight and passenger railroads operating on Union Pacific tracks by 2020, as allowed by federal law. One of […]
NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit’s Atlantic City line and Princeton Dinky shuttle rail line will not open until spring, the agency’s executive director says. New Jersey 101.5 radio reports that restoration of the Atlantic City line and the connecting the Northeast Corridor to the Princeton University campus, are being held up because of continuing engineering […]
MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – The introduction of positive train control remains very much a work in progress, with all the bugs and growing pains that accompany a new technology. But for all that, PTC has definitely begun demonstrating its ability to avoid accidents. Jim LeVere, BNSF Railway vice president, engineering – signals, telecommunications and network […]
NASHVILLE — Music City Star riders may miss a Friday evening ride after today — all because of positive train control. The Regional Transportation Authority’s board of directors recently announced a new Music City Star schedule recently that eliminates a Friday evening round trip between Nashville and Lebanon, Tenn. The schedule also modifies arrival and […]
