GE Transportation and TESSCO form partnership

GE Transportation and TESSCO Technologies Incorporated have formed a long-term partnership to offer Positive Train Control solutions to the North American Rail industry. GE Transportation and TESSCO will co-produce, market and sell integrated, turnkey, Positive Train Control and Monitoring solutions. The two organizations will support the U.S. rail network in its response to the U.S. Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 that set a December 31, 2015 deadline to implement PTC in over 7,000 presently “dark territory” switch locations in the United States. “TESSCO and GE are combining their individual strengths to bring the best turnkey, dark territory solution to our customers,” said Pierre Comte, CEO of GE Transportation’s Intelligent Control Systems business. “TESSCO brings a unique combination of state-of-the-art communication and radio frequency technology – GE brings its innovative signaling solutions; together, we are able to offer an integrated PTC solution.” “We are excited and honored,” commented TESSCO CEO Robert B. Barnhill. “Our power and radio frequency propagation station provides the PTC infrastructure for the GE controller and the radio to detect the condition of rail right away, and monitor oncoming locomotives to help prevent train-to-train collision, over-speed derailment, incursions into established work-zone limits and movement of a train through a switch left in the improper position. We are proud to come together with GE Transportation to create history-making innovations to meet the safety requirements of the railroads.”