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Metrolink collison avoidance system

Hutch Topikian, a road foreman for Metrolink, climbs down from the first Metrolink train to be equipped with a positive train control system, which will eventually be standard on every Metrolink train. The collision avoidance system is designed to prevent tragic accidents like the incident in Chatsworth that killed 25 people in 2008.

Hutch Topikian, a road foreman for Metrolink, climbs down from the first Metrolink train to be equipped with a positive train control system, which will eventually be standard on every Metrolink train. The collision avoidance system is designed to prevent tragic accidents like the incident in Chatsworth that killed 25 people in 2008.   (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Commuter

A commuter walks the platform at Union Station where the first Metrolink train to have a positive train control system was unveiled during a press conference.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Simulator

Metrolink road foreman Hutch Topikian uses a simulator to demonstrate the positive train control system.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

PTC train

The first Metrolink train with a train control system sits at Union Station.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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Demonstration

Neil Brown, a mechanical systems integrator for Metrolink, demonstrates the capabilities of the positive train control system during a media event on board the first Metrolink train to run such a system.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Waiting to board

At Union Station, Jose Dominguez, 50, of Fontana, Ca., waits to board a Metrolink train, just one of all of the network’s locomotives that will one day be equipped with the positive train control collision avoidance system.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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