On Friday, 24 Jan 2020, the CP team commissioned Positive Train Control (PTC) on the Kansas City Subdivision.
 
This was the final piece of the 2,117 miles of wayside equipment and systems required to meet the PTC federally mandated project within our U.S. operation.
 
This safety overlay system provides additional protection for our employees, communities, tenant railways, and customers by addressing the following four key elements:

• Train-to-train collisions;
• Derailments caused by excessive train speed;
• Train movements through misaligned track switches;
• Unauthorized train entry into work zones.

The cross-functional team responsible for this project has worked tirelessly to accelerate our implementation plan.
 
Achieving 100 percent completion is a significant milestone.
 
Completion allows us to move to full interoperability testing with all railroads and to drive system reliability.
 
The project was touched by many departments on both sides of the border, and without their dedication and support we could not have achieved this milestone.
 
Thank you to the following teams:

• Finance, Regulatory Affairs, Government Affairs, Rules, Legal, Interline, Communications and Media Relations, System Safety;
• IS (program delivery, train control, PTC, security, communications team, software solution integration team, On Board, GIS, PTC Triage desk, Dashboard team);
• Mechanical (PM, engineering, all shops);
• Signals and Communications ( PTC deployment and Field Survey team, Design, Wiring Shop, construction and maintenance teams, wayside triage team, testing and commissioning team, and systems assurance);
• Track engineering and operation teams;
• Training department;
• Project management teams;
• Locomotive planning team;
• Operating Centers;
• Field Operation teams, crews, trainmasters.

In addition, we had help from our industry partners, including the Federal Railroad Administration, Association of American Railroads, other Class 1 railways, commuter railways, vendors, consultants, and contractors. The team has been working hard, but they're not taking their foot off the gas. Work that still needs to be done involves:

• Completing interoperability testing, including foreign and commuter railways;
• Reliability testing and enhancements;
• Additional training;
• Refining our internal processes and tools;
• Adding additional PTC equipped locomotives to our fleet;
• Working with the industry on system enhancements.

I'm very proud of the system our CP team built and the hours of dedication it took to make it a reality.
 
Thank you,
 
Mark Redd - EVP Operations.