Reply to post: Re: Could we prove the tech with trains first?

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Re: Could we prove the tech with trains first?

The Amtrack one last Christmas was caused by the fact they had not yet fitted the safety equipment to the track. Normally when a train enters a section of track it reads some data from the signals telling it the max speed for that section of track. Te company building the track was going to be paid a bonus if they ran trains on it before the end of 2017, so they started running trains on it before the safety equipment had been installed.

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