Railway Age Article on MNRR, LIRR, and PTC

The presidents of MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and MTA Metro-North Railroad have announced that Positive Train Control (PTC) has been activated on the majority of their tracks, and both railroads remain on pace to complete system-wide activation of PTC by the end of 2020 as required under a Federal legislation.

Staff who are working to activate PTC have had to reorder the sequences of tasks to make the work more efficient with supply chains disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and have had to ensure adequate social distancing of staff who are performing testing of train cars.

Metro-North reported to the MTA Board that 202 miles, or 82%, of its routes are now operating in PTC: The complete Harlem Line, the complete Hudson Line, the New Haven Line from Grand Central Terminal to Greenwich, Conn., and the New Haven Line’s Danbury and New Canaan Branches. LIRR reported that 223 miles, or 73%, of its routes are now operating in PTC, including the Babylon, Central, Far Rockaway, Hempstead, Long Beach, Montauk, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Port Washington and West Hemstead Branches, and the section of the Ronkonkoma Branch from Ronkonkoma to Greenport.
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