But still, it does puzzle me why it wasn’t doing anything now. Why it was retired so soon, or was it not retired and it just failed?
That’s a question I might ask into locally. I had assumed, wrongly, that railroads were going from being naked to the current PTC system... not from earlier PTC systems to this one. If the latter, then there would be some transition plan.
The train is equipped with a dead-man switch as is every train in the U.S.
It is pretty strange that NJ transit had this sort of system (apparently since 2002?) and that train did not have the gear and ‘no one was trained’. Of course that is long enough that perhaps they phased it out as obsolete and then did not replace it? Still strange.