Comments on: A federally-mandated braking system with a lofty price tag

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:31:35 +0000

Nope, never. And as a result, the trains have to obey ridiculous FRA crash-worthiness standards, forcing the trains to weigh twice as much as necessary.

By: KPL

KPL — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:02:32 +0000

LIRR uses ASC, which is a cab signal system. An engineer can pass a stop signal, there’s nothing to prevent that, but he/she would only be doing so at no more than 15 mph due to the cab signaling.

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:46:41 +0000

I don’t know enough about the braking systems on MNR/LIRR to say, but my guess is that there is one in place. It’s just not up to the standards of the new federal mandates. That happens all the time.

By: herenthere

herenthere — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:44:27 +0000

So all this time there has never been any type of PTC/tripcock system on MNR and LIRR? Wow, good safety record.