Our Experience
Decades of signal design and engineering for Class I railroads, from the original plan & estimate to final as-built plans.
Grade Crossing Warning Devices
We have designed as many as 100 crossing projects in a single year. On average, we design between 40-70 crossing projects per year for Class I railroads.
In the past couple years, we have designed crossing projects in 7 states: Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. We participated in all project phases from the original plan & estimate to preparing final as-built plans. We have experience in the following states as well: Alabama, Kansas, and Tennessee.
Regulations & Guidelines
JaKay Signaling employees are trained and highly knowledgeable of federal and state regulations and guidelines that govern railroad signal equipment. This includes understanding of FRA, USDOT MUTCD, AREMA, and various states’ regulations and guidelines.
1,500+ Plan & Estimates
We have completed plan & estimates for over 1,500 state/federally funded crossing projects for Class I railroads over the past 25 years. The plan & estimates we create for our clients include all estimated costs, including the railroads’ labor and overhead costs.
Equipment Expertise
We have extensive experience and expertise designing current leading industry solutions such as XP4, PMD-4, GCP 3000, GCP 4000, etc. We have also worked with many older vintage types of equipment.
Wayside Train Signaling (CTC / PTC / BRD / ABS, etc.)
We have extensive knowledge in planning, design, material procurement, construction coordination, and project management of wayside train signaling projects. In the past 10 years we’ve averaged 5 to 15 of these types of projects per year.
For one of our clients, we completed 95% of their PTC signal design & engineering. Our PTC design work began in 2010 and continued through the end of 2018. This project included major revisions for 17 subdivisions (895 locations). For this massive project, we completed all steps from preliminary design through preparing final as-built plans. We also managed all other third party engineering groups that designed the remaining 5% of the work. We also completed the majority of the design work, research, and communications with other railroads for the 28 interlockers requiring PTC upgrades.
Other Wayside Projects (Past 15 Years)
- Designed over 325 miles of CTC territory
- Designed over 350 miles of BRD territory
- Designed over 1,500 miles of Tons Per Operative Brake Signal System changes
- Numerous capacity improvement projects including new sidings, siding extensions, and new industry connections (averaging 4-6 per year)
- KCSR Willows Tower Modernization Project – created design plans, code & aspect charts, and material lists to replace all signaling equipment for a tower/interlocker plant involving 4 railroads (7 tracks converging in one small area)
Equipment Expertise
We have extensive experience and expertise designing KB Signaling (ElectroLogIXS, VHLC, EC5, EC4R, ElectroBlox, etc.) wayside equipment.