Safetran subsidiary Burco Services will also be attending InnoTrans.  Burco provides a wide assortment of logistics management, procurement, warehousing, assembly and rebuild services to five of the seven Class I, North American railroads from seven locations across the continent.  Ordering, payment, order tracking, and expediting transactions are available on the internet.   Burco recently announced a new development initiating a 24/7 delivery service to handle scheduled, on-demand and emergency shipments for the company’s customers.   The dedicated fleet features self-loading equipment and is GPS managed.   You can get more info from the Burco website www.eburco.com.
 

Safetran are gearing up to show its line of level crossing warning and control equipment and its GEO ® Signal System for non-electrified territories on the Invensys stand, #114, at InnoTrans 2006.   Not many people realize that in addition to its market leading wayside signaling and crossing equipment, Safetran is a major supplier of digital voice dispatch systems (with VOIP capability to the field), mainline and yard switch machines and vital relays.   In fact the company’s products are sold to railroads and mass transit companies across North America, in South America and in Eastern Europe. Additional information is available at www.Safetran.com

Railroads are seeking a means of monitoring and reporting on the position of hand-throw switches in non-signaled, track warrant territories.  To meet this requirement, Safetran, part of Invensys Rail has introduced the VSLIC switch monitoring system which is a vital, stand-alone, logic controller providing four vital inputs and four vital outputs that monitor and report the status of remote, hand-throw switches. 

VSLIC utilizes the vital ATCS (Advanced Train Control System) communications protocol enhanced with a digital signature to ensure secure delivery of switch status information.  The vital status messages may be delivered to a central-office reporting and control system, to adjacent wayside signals, or to an on-board display.

North American ATCS (Advanced Train Control System) specifications have been adopted by Safetran to provide interoperable electronic train control systems. Safetran's R/Link has become an industry standard for ATCS radio signal control links. The GEO / Link signal control and interlocking scheme provides an upwardly compatible transition from conventional signal systems to fully radio based systems.

Remote system configuration and diagnostic capabilities are included and the system will communicate via existing radio, land line or wireless packet-data networks.   VSLIC field equipment can be installed in less than one day depending on local conditions. 

VSLIC can be used to remotely control actual switch operation if the location is up-graded to a power switch and contains vital logic to provide protection against movement.   Custom VSLIC configurations can be provided for vital/non-vital monitoring, status reporting and control of other critical rail installations, such as movable bridges and yard switches, in both signaled and non-signaled territories.

US-based Safetran is a major supplier of rail transit signal systems with projects on AMTRAK (National Railroad Passenger Corporation), MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority), METRA (Chicago), Metrolink (Los Angeles), Metropolitan Transit, New Jersey Transit, New York City Transit, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit and others. Safetran has been prime contractor for many of these large signaling installations. Systems include both traditional relay-based and electronic- controlled applications.

www.safetran.com