My colleague and friend Bill Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief of our sister magazine, Railway Age, wrote an exciting story that is published on both the RT&S and Railway Age website news feeds. Bill's story also is the cover of the September Railway Age print magazine. The story reports on the latest iteration of New York Air Brake's LEADER (Locomotive Engineer Assist/ Display and Event Recorder) software. This software was demonstrated on the TTCI test track in Pueblo, Colo., on Aug. 27, 2019. As Bill says, LEADER performed "automatic operation of throttle, dynamic brake, independent brake, and air brakes, control[ed] the train for 48 miles over a variety of terrain, start[ed] and stop[ped] on uphill and downhill grades and on level right-of-way. Positive train control (PTC) also governed the train's movement."
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