AMERICAN RAILWAY ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE OF WAY ASSOCIATION Communications & Signals Functional Group PROCEEDINGS 1998 Annual Technical Conference Cervantes Convention Center St. Louis, Missouri September 14-16,1998 TECHNISCHE INFORMATIONSBSOLIOTHEK UNIVERSITATSDISUOTHEK HANNOVER UB/TIB Hannover 89 117 028 436 Printed in USA.
AREMA C&S TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS I ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Technical Committees 4 C&S Committee photographs 14 AREMA Registration & RSSI Exhibit Opening 16 MONDAY September 14,1999 Opening Session photographs 19 Alvan Tom opens first AREMA C&S meeting 22 AREMA: What it is and How it Operates by Darrell Cantrell, Senior Vice President 25 FRA Outlook by Donald F. Itzkoff, Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration 28 Keynote Address by James A. Hagen, Retired Chief Executive Officer, ConRail 36 A Rail Industry Perspective by Charles E. Dettmann, Executive Vice President, Safety & Operations, Association of American Railroads 42 Greetings from RSSI by David Fox, Chairman & President, Railway Systems Suppliers, Inc 48
TUESDAY September 15, 1999 Tuesday photographs of speakers 52 Signal Session Tuesday Morning 53 Signal Liaison Report by William G. Peterson, Director Signal Engineering, BNSF 54 A Safety Critical Methodology for Signaling and Train Control Systems by Joseph F. Noffsinger, Assistant Chief Engineer C&S Assets, ConRail; Ted C. Giras, Visiting professor & Co-Director Center for Safety Critical Systems, University of Virginia; and Barry W. Johnson Professor and Co-Director, Center for Safety Critical Systems, University of Virginia 63 A Simple Method for Determining Life Cycle Cost of a System by Adam E. Szymkowiak, Systems Assurance Engineer, Union Switch & Signal, Inc.; and Chinnarao Mokkapati, Vice President Quality Assurance, Union Switch ~ Signal Inc 79 Revisiting Rules Governing Mandatory Testing of Vital Interlocking Control Equipment by James B. Balliet, Manager Vital Wayside Products, Alstom Signaling, Inc 90 VRLA Battery Monitoring: Lead Acid Battery Analyzer by Philip Miller, B&P Engineering 106 <? Safe Braking Distance Algorithm by William Matheson and Dr. Charles Zahm, GE Harris Railway Electronics 112 Tuesday Afternoon Communications Session 130 Communications Liaison Report by David Flinkstrom, Senior Director Communications, Amtrak 130 FCC and the Railroads by John Borkowski, Chief Policy & Rules Branch, Public Safety Private Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission 135 Local Wireless Data Applications: A Standards Based Approach by Edwin L. Hollingsworth, Assistant Engineer Wireless Systems, UP 145 Michigan High Speed Positive Train Control Project by Robert A. Kollmar, Director Engineering Initiatives, Amtrak. 163 Norfolk Southern's Digital VHF Radio System by Rocky A. Perkins, Supervisor C&S, NS Corp 178 Norfolk Southern's Highway Crossing Monitor Program by Stephen F. Boaz, Manager Electronic Systems, NS Corp, 183
WEDNESDAY September 16, 1999 Photographs of Wednesday morning session events 194 Panel discussion by Technical Committee Chairs: 35C Communications Engineering, Larry Price, Norfolk Southern 36D Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Warning Systems, Jim Murphy, UP 37E Signal Systems, Joe McGinley, ConRail 38F Information, Defect Detection & Energy Systems, Fred Meeks, BNSF 198 Committee 35C Information Report Mailing Information for Radios 204 Mailing Information for End-of-Train Units 210 Committee 37E Information Report Welding 500 MCM Cables to the Web of the Alloy Rail 215 Committee 38F Information Report Selecting Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Train Detection Electronics in an A/C Power Interference Environment 227 Next General Computer-Aided Dispatch System by Ken Farson, GE Harris Railway - Electronics 236 History of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Signals by Bob McKnight, Railway Signaling Historian 247 Breathing New Life into Classification Yards by Gil Barnes, CSXT; Fran Welech, AAA Sales & Engineering; and John Norris, AJstom Signaling 258 Panel Discussion of the Y2K Problem with Moderator John Sharkey, IC; and members Heggestad, Harmon; Peter Hart, Alstom; Mike Krzus, IC; Don Laurel, CSXT; Bill Petit, Safetran; and Grant Vale, CP 267 Closing Session with Resolutions and introduction of new AREMA C&S Officers 275 AREMA C&S Conference Registration - 284 RSSI Registration 292
AREMA SIGNAL MANUAL 1998 CHANGES 1998 New Manual Parts 303 1998 Reaffirmed Manual Parts 304 1998 Revised Manual Parts 309 1998 Transferred Manual Parts 316 1998 Extended Manual Parts 317 1998 Eliminated Manual Parts 318