AC news, 9/30:
Hoboken Crash Reignites Debate Over Positive Train Control
The New Jersey train crash that left one woman dead and 114 others injured has re-ignited a debate over an automatic train-braking system called positive train control.
Positive train control (PTC) deploys automatically when trains run above the speed limit, among other scenarios.
According to New Jersey Transit’s last quarterly filing, dated July 2016, none of the company’s 400+ locomotives were equipped with PTC software, nor was its track. According to that same report, filed with the Federal Railroad Administration, the company had installed some hardware components on eight trains, and scheduled a pilot demonstration for a 6-mile segment of track. NJT does not dispute the report.
Continue here w/video report.