The BNSF Daytons Bluff Yard in St. Paul, Minnesota, part of the Northern Transcon rail line that was denied a waiver for a tech-based rail safety test program. Credit: Google
Citing evidence of an “unqualified success,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found a Federal Railroad Administration decision to delay rollout of a high-tech inspection process for railroad track was arbitrary and capricious.
At issue is the continued testing of a technology called Automated Track Inspection, which employs a device on unmanned train cars that travel the rails and uses lasers and sensors to identify internal defects and other flaws invisible to the human eye.
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