Positive Train Control

February 20, 2017 By: ironcore

A signaling system designed to determine a train’s location, direction and speed and use that data to prevent: train-to-train collisions; derailments caused by excessive speed; unauthorized incursions by trains onto sections of track where maintenance activities are taking place; and movement of a train through a track switch left in the wrong positions.

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