Rail operators’ implementation of automatic braking technology continues to show progress, federal regulators announced this week. Positive train control systems were in operation on about 50,300 of ...

WASHINGTON — Nine railroads have demonstrated little progress with installing an automatic braking system, jeopardizing their chances to qualify for a Dec. 31 deadline extension to implement the ...

The title of Larry Light’s “PTC vs. Legacy Train Control” article in the June 2016 issue of Railway Age (full text follows this article) promised a balanced discussion of the differences between newer ...

No audio available for this content. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded $46,301,702 in grant funding for 11 projects in 10 states to assist with deploying positive train control ...

Characterizing progress on Positive Train Control as “uneven,” Federal Railroad Administrator Ron Batory pledged that the agency he now officially leads “is taking a proactive approach to ensure ...

Commuter railroads nationally, including the Long Island Rail Road, have made significant progress toward a year-end federal deadline to install positive train control technology, but major challenges ...

Trains on numerous Metra lines were delayed Wednesday due to issues with Positive Train Control systems, the agency said.

No audio available for this content. The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released a status update on its efforts to assist railroads in implementing positive train control systems (PTC), ...

After years of missed deadlines and contractor disputes, Metro-North Railroad has finished installing a state-of-the-art braking system on its trains designed to prevent derailments like the one that ...