Belt Railway Company of Chicago awarded Wabtec a USD 22 million contract to design, install, test and commission of Positive Train Control (PTC) system. The contract is expected to be completed in 2018.
Under the contract, Wabtec will provide its Interoperable Electronic Train Management System (I-ETMS®) equipment for five locomotives, a back-office server, office hosting, wayside and communications design, a track database, construction, training, and system integration.
BRC’s PTC system will be fully interoperable with the PTC system being implemented by all Class 1 owners as well as Metra, Amtrak and five short-line railways.
With complex interoperability requirements, Belt Railway owns and operates about 470 km of track, with about 43 km of mainline track encompassed in two subdivisions: Kenton and 59th Street.
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