37 Railroads Fail to Meet Deadline

The Department of Transportation was thrilled to announce that four railroads met the December 31 deadline for installing positive train control. That would be great news if those four railroads were the four that carry about 75 percent of rail traffic in this country, namely BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific.

But it wasn’t. Instead, they were the North County Transit District (in San Diego County), Metrolink (in the Los Angeles area), Port Authority Transit-Hudson, and the Portland & Western (over which Portland’s TriMet operates a commuter train). That means 37 railroads — including seven class I railroads (the above big four, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and Kansas City Southern), Amtrak, two dozen commuter railroads, and a handful of short lines — failed to meet the deadline and received waivers to not do so.

The December 31 deadline is actually three years after the original deadline, which was in 2015. While DOT says that 71 percent of the route miles that are required to have positive train control have it installed, why has it taken so long to complete the system?
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The answer, as I noted last year, comes down to the fact that positive train control is expensive to install, expensive to maintain, and provides minimal benefits. In 2017, 821 people died in railroad related accidents. Positive train control might have prevented 6 of those deaths.

While life may be priceless, for a lot less money the railroads could have prevented a lot more deaths by focusing on grade crossings, where 272 people died, and reducing trespassings, which killed 509 people. Instead, we have a big bureaucracy set up to write and enforce regulations for a technology that does little good.