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The tracks at that location? or is this done from some remote location where they are just watching? >> well, generally depends on the signaling system but they'll have either a regional or a centralized dispatching center. that will have charge of wayside signals and give clearance to trains not only wayside signals which will be green or red like a traffic signal that says a train you can go or not. but they'll also be -- they get train orders and things of that nature and also run by a timetable that says hey, you've got to clear amtrak train 91 ten minutes before it arrives. so those kind ...

A type of system we were just referring to in the last segment is called positive train control. what is it? how does it work? we go inside a train simulator at los angeles metro link. >> so you're that engineer. you're coming into a curve. it seems a little bit hot. what is it telling you? >> right now my train speed is 62 miles an hour. we're going to shortly -- momentarily when comebe coming into a zone. it's going to give me a warning saying you need to brake and reduce your speed. it will give me a time limit. it's saying i have 29 seconds to bring my speed down. if i don't do it bring my...