Regional and commuter rail

Real railroading, modest fleet, no enterprise budget.

A regional line with a handful of consists, certified crews, work windows to protect, and a feed that riders and trip planners depend on. The complexity of a railroad without the staffing of one.

Two workers in hi-vis clothing kneel over a rail joint on a single-track rural line during a daytime maintenance window, a utility truck parked on the road alongside. — **Plate 07**A work window is a promise to the schedule. Both have to be true at once.

A day, as it actually goes

04:55	Shift handoff. The night's notes exist mostly as a conversation on the platform.
07:10	A crossing obstruction stops service. Riders need to know within minutes.
09:00	Track time is confirmed for Thursday. Four runs are affected and the feed does not know.
13:20	An engineer's recertification is due in five weeks and nobody has scheduled it.
16:45	The 92-day inspection on RDC 4 lands the same morning as the 07:02.

What changes

Work windows that reach the schedule

Book track time and the affected runs surface immediately, with a diff you can read before anything publishes.

A notice out in minutes

Log the incident, draft the rider notice from it, publish when you are satisfied. It reaches your alerts page, the feed and email at once.

Certifications that warn early

Engineer, conductor and CDL expiries flagged at sixty days, not the week the crew becomes unqualified.

Feeds that stay honest

The GTFS feed is built from the working schedule, so a service change cannot leave it behind.

What it looks like

Equipment · RDC 4Out of service

92Day inspection due

3Open defects

× Brake rigging — audible knock opened 4 Jun
! Door interlock intermittent opened 28 May
! Seat 14 frame cracked opened 19 May
✓ Annual air brake test passed 2 Apr

Out-of-service dates reach the schedule. Nothing can be assigned to RDC 4 until it clears.

Reports · Quarter to dateBoard packet ready

94.2%On time

1,481Revenue hours

18,306Boardings

2.1%Missed

Boardings by month

Deadhead is held separately, so cost per revenue hour is the real number.

Honest limits for this kind of operation

Nothing safety-critical. No signalling, no train control, no dispatch authority — those stay with the systems certified for them.
Above roughly fifty vehicles you are at the edge of what this is designed for.
Certified CAD/AVL hardware integration is not something we provide.

Usually the right plan

Regional Operator — $899/month

Multi-zone operations, up to 50 vehicles, integrations and advanced reporting.

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