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The Vectron is equipped with the ATO system. Credit: DB Cargo. DB Cargo has equipped a locomotive with Automatic Train Operation (ATO) for automated driving and Remote Train Operation (RTO) for remote ...

Every Union Pacific freight train that runs in Houston is operated by a Union Pacific employee, whether it is an engineer operating a conventional locomotive or a conductor operating a ...

Virtually every day, Union Pacific moves a train of up to 80 cars – many of them filled with ethanol, liquid petroleum, and a variety of highly toxic chemicals – from its Settegast yard to the nearby ...

Using remote control operators helps limit costs by using less experienced workers to move locomotives that help assemble trains — a task that once required licensed engineers who are among the ...

At the request of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Mandan City Commission will consider a resolution forbidding railroads from operating remote controlled locomotives in Mandan until ...

The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a railyard last year sees a simple solution to preventing similar deaths in the future: two-person crews.

EKE-Electronics will supply locomotive control equipment for the modernisation of ÖBB locomotive series Rh 1044. At Innotrans 2008 EKE’s Swiss system integrator partner Railtec Systems signed a ...

MATTOON — A locomotive running down the tracks without an engineer in the cab used to be a runaway train. Today, a locomotive driven by someone outside the engine cab is a run-of-the-mill operation in ...