CSX to get major train dispatching makeover

by Jim Repass
TRA Advisor
Founder of National Corridors Initiative

Union Switch & Signal said last week CSX has awarded US&S a contract to design and install its “Next Generation” dispatch” system for the Kenneth C. Dufford Transportation Center in Jacksonville, Florida.

The program will eventually replace the current CSX dispatching system, according to US&S, which originally installed CSX’s current system in 1988.

The firm will migrate Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) and dark territory control applications from the current VAX-based computer system to the new US&S distributed Unix-based platform. Subsequent tasks will include moving train message, bulletin and train sheet functions.

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Reprint from Destination Freedom, Vol. 4, No. 8.