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This report endeavors to describe safety benefits, and business benefits of PTC and allied business systems, which might utilize a PTC communications platform or draw information from PTC functions and utilize it to support business applications, together with the costs of those systems and...
Summary Report: On July 1, 2015, at 11:45 p.m., EDT, a southbound CSX Transportation (CSX) freight train, Number S541-01 (“the accident train”), originating in Cincinnati, Ohio, and consisting of two locomotives, 45 loaded, and 12 empty freight cars, derailed. Only the 37th car, a tank car with...
This Final Service-level Environmental Impact Statement ·(FEIS) considers development of an Intercity passenger rail system that enhances existing passenger rail service and provides new passenger rail service between Oklahoma City and South Texas (Laredo, Corpus Christi, Brownsville), with...
High-speed trains in the speed range of 100 to 160 mph require tracks of nearly perfect geometry and mechanical uniformity, when
subjected to moving wheel loads. Therefore, this report briefly describes the remedies being used by various railroads to create
smoothed transition regions. Some of...