news Metro-North Signal Upgrades Complete at Curves and Bridges

[Harry]

 

MTA Metro-North Railroad has completed permanent changes to its signal system to ensure automatic speed enforcement at five critical curves and five moveable bridges in New York and Connecticut, more than five months ahead of schedule. Today the railroad announced that with the completion of work at the Devon Bridge in Stratford, CT, last Thursday all the signal modifications ordered by the Federal Railroad Administration in December are now complete, well before the September 1, 2014 FRA deadline. “The complete implementation of the requirements of the FRA’s Emergency Order 29, issued on December 8, 2013, brings us another step closer to a safer railroad, which is our number one goal,” said Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti, who started on February 10 of this year. “We will continue to take all necessary steps to restore Metro-North to greatness.”

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[QM1to6Ave]

Should have been done a long time ago. 

[traingoat]

It is amazing that it took this long as the technology has been around for many, many years whether computer or operator control.  The BMT used it when they opened the the Broadway line in Manhattan. Its a timed signal to enforce speed regulations with the trip of the brakes stopping your butt.  

[nostalgia]

It is amazing that it took this long as the technology has been around for many, many years whether computer or operator control.  The BMT used it when they opened the the Broadway line in Manhattan. Its a timed signal to enforce speed regulations with the trip of the brakes stopping your butt.  

Railroad signals don't work the same way as subway signals. Trains have cab signals, subways don't. The signals were changed so that a signal is less favorable than clear, causing the automatic speed control alarm to go off. The engineer has to make a reduction in brake pressure or the train dumps its air. I'm not sure, but I think it's a 25 pound reduction.