Pennsylvania train crash highlights shortcomings of automated railroad braking system [Financial Post (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)]
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The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the circumstances the National Transportation Safety Board described Tuesday in its preliminary report on the March 2 derailment would have triggered the automated positive train control system to stop the trains. Article content Not only was the system incapable of stopping the second train before it smashed into the back of a stopped train, but it also couldn't stop the third train. It ran into the derailed cars blockings its track when it arrived less than a minute later. Article content “PTC today has not generally been designed to protect them in that situation,” railroad safety expert Chris Barkan said. Congress required railroads to develop the positive train control system after a deadly 2008 collision between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train in Chat
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