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PTC Annual Report for 2015: Kansas City Southern Railway Company

KCSR’s progress with respect to Positive Train Control (“PTC”) in 2015 was orchestrated via a Program governance regime which sees a formal PTC Program executed in four phases: Mobilize, Develop, Deploy, and Sustain.  Mobilize – Introduction of the Program: Initial assignment of resources,...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Denton County Transportation Authority

In February 2016 DCTA submitted updated PTCIP (Rev 5) with accompanying RFA to propose change of the implemented system from the originally proposed V-ETMS by Wabtec, to Alstom’s E-ATC system. DCTA will utilize the Type Approval of Enhanced Automatic Train Control (E-ATC), FRA Type Approval (FRA-TA...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: CSX

Pursuant to 49 USC 20157(c)(1)1 and 49 CFR §236.1009(a)(5)2 of the Positive Train Control Systems; Final Rule as amended (Final Rule), CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) submits this annual progress report to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in regard to the revised CSXT Positive Train...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Conrail Shared Assets Organization

Conrail Shared Assets has completed the installation and in-service of the PTC field equipment. All WIUs are currently reporting signal status to the WSRS. The WSRS is in service and operating. There are currently 5 operational base stations in PTC service under a temporary license through the LLC...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Central Florida Rail Corridor

In early to mid-2015, CFRC was exploring implementing E-ATC for PTC since E-ATC was being implemented by other commuter rail systems. An open design-build procurement for both E-ATC and I-ETMS was issued in September 2015 but was cancelled because E-ATC was no longer a viable option. Discussions...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: BNSF Railway

At its maximum BNSF had 19 subdivisions in Revenue Service Demonstration during 2015. In September 2015 BNSF contracted that number down to 6 subdivisions in order to perform a detailed Reliability Study and Root Cause Analysis for the most impactful issues to operating with PTC. As BNSF and its...