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What's wrong with PTC

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Posted by schlimm on Friday, November 6, 2015 2:59 PM

BaltACD posted that RA link eralier.  I posted several extended excerpts. There was also a link to a Reters article.   It's a shocking story which no one else has commented on.  What gives?   The ugly truth hurts?

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Posted by oltmannd on Friday, November 6, 2015 1:28 PM

A good analogy to giving the signal dept PTC, would be giving MOW the job of developing mag-lev.  You can be sure that it would include a set of wheels and rails so that there would be a "fall back"...

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What's wrong with PTC
Posted by oltmannd on Friday, November 6, 2015 1:19 PM

Once they decided that PTC's job was to enforce the existing rulebook, it was game over...

Read this.  It's worth the time and effort.

http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/ptc/the-tangled-tale-of-ptc.html?channel=63

 

-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/

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