Watch: BNSF Brake Health Pilot Program
Written by Railway Age StaffBNSF is conducting a pilot safety program approved by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to evaluate the effectiveness of thermal detector technology for monitoring brake health.
“With thermal detector technology, we can gather more data about the health of brakes on a moving train than can be collected from a visual inspection,” BNSF Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer Matt Igoe reported. “It’s another part of the way BNSF continues to push the operation to be safer, more reliable, and more efficient for our customers.”
In the video below, Igoe speaks with BNSF Vice President Mechanical Gary Grissum about the program’s results so far.
Further Reading:
CEO PERSPECTIVE: Leveraging Advanced Technologies, by Katie Farmer, President and CEO, BNSF Railway
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