Belt Railway Company of Chicago's Request To Amend Its Positive Train Control System

Belt Railway Company of Chicago's Request To Amend Its Positive Train Control System

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) published a notice of availability and request for comments on a request for amendment (RFA) submitted by Belt Railway Company of Chicago (BRC) on January 12, 2026. BRC seeks FRA approval for planned, temporary outages to its Mixed Positive Train Control System for Back Office Subsystem maintenance during March and April 2026. The RFA is filed under Docket No. FRA-2010-0062. This is a procedural notice; no environmental impact analysis is present in the document.

Belt Railway Company of Chicago's Request To Amend Its Positive Train Control System

This is a procedural Federal Register notice, not a NEPA document. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) published a notice of availability and request for public comments on Belt Railway Company of Chicago's (BRC) July 11, 2025 request for amendment (RFA) to its FRA-certified Positive Train Control (PTC) system. The RFA seeks approval to temporarily disable BRC's Interoperable Electronic Train Management System (I-ETMS) back office subsystem to perform power redundancy and network infrastructure upgrades. Comments are due by August 18, 2025. No environmental impacts or NEPA alternatives are analyzed in this notice.