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PTC Annual Report for 2015: Union Pacific Railroad

At the end of 2015, UP had over 600 locomotives equipped and commissioned for PTC/RSD operation. However, due to technical difficulties with the Crash-Hardened Memory (CHM) subsystem, UP has not been able to accept the product from its supplier and widely deploy it. The small locomotive count below...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Trinity Railway Express

A Systems Integrator solicitation was let in June 2015 with proposals received in September 2015. The TRE is currently negotiating with the proposer on a revised statement of work and pricing. The TRE has been in negotiations with PTC220LLC for the required spectrum and with Meteorcomm for the...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

TRRA is still in negotiations for a contract for providing and installing PTC on its territory and locomotives. Discussions involve the potential Contractor and Union Pacific Railroad in addition to TRRA and its engineering consultant, Burns Engineering, Inc. No equipment has been furnished or...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Southern California Regional Rail Authority

SCRRA has achieved system‐wide RSD as of June 30, 2015 and has submitted a PTCSP December 30, 2015. Since beginning RSD in March of 2015, SCRRA has over 30,000 successful PTC trips. SCRRA seeks concurrence that it has fully implemented PTC per its PTCIP prior to December 31, 2015 and further...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Sounder Commuter Rail

This report represents the progress towards implementing PTC for the year 2015 on Sound Transit. In the year 2015 Sound Transit completed following milestones: 1. Sound Transit contracted Xorail to install On-board PTC hardware on the Sound Transit Locomotives, Cab Cars and designated Tacoma Rail...

PTC Annual Report for 2015: Portland & Western Railroad

This report represents the progress towards achieving the goals for the year 2015 as outlined in the PNWR PTCIP (Revision 1.9 – submitted to the FRA on 01/18/16); specifically the high-level schedule shown in Section 7, Deployment Sequence and Schedule, of the PTCIP and Appendix 15.1, Project...