Virginia Railway Express (VRE) could face fines up to $25,000 a day starting in 2016.
This is one of the consequences that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) could levy against Virginia's only commuter railroad for not meeting full federal compliance standards with implementation of "positive train control" by the end of 2015, according to VRE spokesman Bryan Jungwirth.
Positive train control is a combination of technologies that can automatically stop a train to prevent collisions and derailments, like the Amtrak train that derailed outside of Philadelphia in May.
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