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HQ-2017-1209 (Finalized)

On June 14, 2017, at approximately 6:30 p.m., CDT, a Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train, MYCAS- 14, operating southwest from Villa Grove, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri, struck an occupied van on the N 80 Road public highway-rail grade crossing (also known as County Road 1800 East). The U....

HQ-2017-1194 (Finalized)

On March 10, 2017, at 12:51 a.m., CST, Eastbound Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) Train UEGKOT 09, an ethanol train, derailed 20 rail cars. The accident occurred approximately two miles east of Graettinger, Iowa, at Milepost 56.72, on UP’s Twin Cities Service Unit, Estherville Subdivision. Of...

PTC Test Facility Assessment and Laboratory Development: Phase I

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) provided funding to Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to visit and assess multiple railroad developed Positive Train Control (PTC) test facilities. TTCI reviewed these railroad test methodologies to develop recommendations for a PTC industry...

Next Generation Track Circuits

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored a project from June 8, 2015, through June 7, 2017, in which Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) investigated concepts and technologies for next generation track circuits (NGTC) that could support future methods of train control. Future...