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Reason for the 50th
If it weren't for the individuals working hard to be inventing new technology each and every day to keep America moving safely, there would be no 50th anniversary for Amtrak such as what they're celebrating today. Those people have presented companies such as Amtrak with safety-focused systems, designs, and plans that are used to keep America moving. Building that safety-prioritized message that Amtrak presents to it's riders and customers, a Positive Train Control (PTC) test train was slated the evening before to be sent south on the Northeast Corridor.
PTC is a system designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, over-speed derailments, incursions into established work zones, and movements of trains through switches left in the wrong position. Essentially, almost any form of human error is designed to be caught and prevented by the PTC system.
This train, Amtrak 863(22) was sent out of Boston to exercise the PTC system on the Northeast Corridor, particularly this morning from Southhampton Street Yard in Boston to New Haven, Connecticut. These trains are ran a few times a year to test the health, status, and integrity of the positive train control system of each testing block the crew is assigned.
Reason for the 50th
If it weren't for the individuals working hard to be inventing new technology each and every day to keep America moving safely, there would be no 50th anniversary for Amtrak such as what they're celebrating today. Those people have presented companies such as Amtrak with safety-focused systems, designs, and plans that are used to keep America moving. Building that safety-prioritized message that Amtrak presents to it's riders and customers, a Positive Train Control (PTC) test train was slated the evening before to be sent south on the Northeast Corridor.
PTC is a system designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, over-speed derailments, incursions into established work zones, and movements of trains through switches left in the wrong position. Essentially, almost any form of human error is designed to be caught and prevented by the PTC system.
This train, Amtrak 863(22) was sent out of Boston to exercise the PTC system on the Northeast Corridor, particularly this morning from Southhampton Street Yard in Boston to New Haven, Connecticut. These trains are ran a few times a year to test the health, status, and integrity of the positive train control system of each testing block the crew is assigned.