PTC: Ignore the circus. Here’s what’s really going on

By William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief, Railway Age Magazine; February 16, 2018

The railroad industry is making steady progress implementing Positive Train Control. You wouldn’t know it though, if you believed some of the choreographed histrionics the House Subcommittee on Railroads and its chairman displayed at a Feb. 15 hearing on PTC.

I’ll try to keep this first observation brief. Here’s Subcommittee Chair Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) in a press release that had me saying, “Really?”

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