by mtuandrew
BandA wrote:Would "form D on steroids" electronic enforcement of track warrants require replacement of the present IETMS or ASCES systems in the locomotives on those routes?I haven’t had access to any PTC systems firsthand so I couldn’t say for certain, but I feel like the systems would include sufficient memory to save some instructions while temporarily out of radio range. These systems may require a major software update & possibly a hardware memory upgrade to store, check, and use an entire subdivision’s worth of instructions.