KB Signaling Reaches Installation Milestone of its EC6 Track Circuit

Courtesy of KB Signaling

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. - KB Signaling announced its Electro Code™ (EC6™) track circuit has sold and installed more than 800 VTI-2E™ modules throughout North America.

According to the release, this is the equivalent to more than 4,800 miles of signaled track. The EC6 track circuit “provides two-way safety-critical digital communications through the rails, supporting train detection, signal aspect transmission, broken rail identification, and data integrity verification.” It is designed to work with KB Signaling’s EC5^™ and ElectroLogIXS® systems.

Director of Products at KB Signaling Aric Weingartner said, “The rate of adoption is picking up. . . We’ve already sold more units in the first half of 2025 than we did in the two previous years combined. That tells us railroads are turning to the EC6 track circuit as a solution for long-standing challenges with track circuit performance.”

 “With legacy systems, railroads had to manually adjust circuits to compensate for seasonal changes or poor ballast,” said Jeff Fries, chief technologist at KB Signaling. “The EC6 track circuit doesn’t need those adjustments. The data it provides makes the circuit more stable – even in areas with inconsistent conditions.”

 “Most of the underlying system stays the same,” said Greg Hann, KB Signaling senior product manager. “We’ve designed the EC6 track circuit to be a plug-and-play upgrade that doesn’t require signal engineers to redesign existing logic. It’s a fast path to better performance.”

 “Because we know how much energy is put in and received at each end of the rail, we can evaluate loss across the track – and understand the condition of the track structure itself,” Chief technologist Fries added. “That’s incredibly valuable when you’re trying to stay ahead of problems.”