Kansas City Southern Railway FRA Grant Methodology, Activities and Lessons Learned Grant: FR-TEC-0008-11-01-00

The Kansas City Southern Railway (“KCSR”) endeavored to modernize their outdated legacy microwave system in preparation for its Positive Train Control (PTC) deployment. Their goal was to upgrade their microwave network preserving the function of their existing communications system, while migrating to a more robust internet protocol (IP) network based communications system. Disaster recovery and PTC interconnection were their primary considerations. These are the methods and activities that they followed to accomplish the successful implementation of the technology. Due to the number of locations needing the upgrade, they broke the effort into more than one phase.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Kansas City Southern Railway

  Kansas City, MO  United States 

  Federal Railroad Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 2013-6-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 10p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer network protocols; Microwave communication systems; Modernization; Plan implementation; Positive train control
• Identifier Terms: Kansas City Southern Railway
• Geographic Terms: Kansas City (Missouri)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01488482
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Grant: FR-TEC-0008-11-01-00
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 30 2013 9:49AM