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Automated Rolling Stock Inspection with Wayside and Onboard Technology

June 2025 – Railway Age
The June 2025 edition of Railway Age highlights TTC’s leadership in rolling stock safety with a featured article on automated inspection technologies. Written by ENSCO’s Travis Gorhum, the article explores the role of wayside and onboard systems—including bearing, wheel, and brake monitoring—in advancing rail safety. It also emphasizes the value of TTC’s test infrastructure in validating these innovations.

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TTC: Where Innovations Meets Real-World Rail Applications

May 2025 – RT&S
This article explores how the Transportation Technology Center (TTC) is advancing railway safety through large-scale testing of fiber optic and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technologies. By simulating real-world load conditions at TTC’s Rail Test Track (RTT), researchers evaluated the effectiveness of these advanced sensors in monitoring track degradation and wheel-rail interaction. The work highlights a multi-agency partnership and positions TTC as a leader in validating technologies that can improve early detection of track issues and enhance maintenance decision-making.

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ENSCO Hires Gregory Holtman as Training Coordinator to Lead Workforce Development at TTC

May 20, 2025
ENSCO announced the hiring of Gregory Holtman as Training Coordinator at the Transportation Technology Center (TTC) in Pueblo, Colorado. Holtman will lead workforce development initiatives and training programs to support the center’s growing mission across rail and multimodal transportation sectors. His appointment reinforces ENSCO’s commitment to education, safety, and innovation.

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Grade Crossing Collision Testing at the TTC

April 2025 – Railway Age

This article highlights how the TTC conducts full-scale grade crossing collision testing to improve rail safety and support public awareness. By replicating real-world crash scenarios, TTC generates critical data used to enhance railcar crashworthiness, inform engineering standards, and educate stakeholders on grade crossing risks. The article emphasizes TTC’s unique capabilities and its ongoing role in advancing research that directly impacts safety at highway-rail intersections.

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Decision Making from Software and AI

March 2025 – RT&S

As railroads face increasing demands for efficiency and safety, AI-powered decision-making and predictive maintenance strategies are revolutionizing track infrastructure management. Traditional inspection methods are giving way to data-driven solutions, leveraging advanced track inspection technologies, machine learning, and predictive analytics to optimize maintenance planning.

The Transportation Technology Center (TTC), operated by ENSCO, plays a key role in testing and validating these innovations, helping railroads transition to smarter, more proactive asset management.

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Battery Safety in Rail Transportation

February 2025 – Railway Age

The global transportation industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the rapid adoption of battery-electric-powered vehicles across multiple sectors. However, this progress brings new and unique challenges relating to safe designs, operations, and specialized training for first responders. Throughout history, changes in energy sources have been accompanied by concerns and challenges that need to be addressed.  Just as the rail industry successfully transitioned from steam to diesel locomotives, the next generation of rail transportation must adapt to meet the demands of continued advancement.

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Meet Our Keynote Speaker

Gerhard “Gery” Williams is Executive Vice President, Service Delivery & Operations, serving in this role since July 2022. Gery leads an organization focused primarily on safely and reliably delivering Amtrak services to customers, operating and maintaining the company’s core railroad assets – including infrastructure and rail car and locomotive fleets – and driving process improvement and efficiencies across the Amtrak network.

Service Delivery & Operations (SD&O) consists of the Transportation, Mechanical, Infrastructure Maintenance & Construction Services (IMCS), Customer Service Stations, Onboard Services and Food & Beverage, California Operations, Operations Integration and Network Support functions.

Gery had served as Senior Vice President, SD&O, since January 2022 and was responsible for the newly created IMCS group, which encompasses engineering production and maintenance functions. He also led day-to-day core service delivery across the SD&O organization, driving continuous improvement to safety, customer service and productivity. 

Prior to joining Amtrak in June 2017 as Vice President and Chief Engineer, he had spent almost three decades at CSX Transportation. Gery held a wide range of senior leadership roles, including Vice President, Mechanical Operations; Chief Mechanical Officer – Locomotives; AVP Network Operations – Locomotive Management; and Division Manager. In his last position at CSX as VP, Mechanical Operations, he reported to the Chief Operating Officer and directed a team of 3,800 employees responsible for the maintenance and repair of a combined fleet of 70,000 locomotives and rail cars. Early in his profession, Gery held various positions including trainmaster, manager of safety and terminal manager.

Across his long railroad career, Gery has consistently demonstrated collaborative and data-driven leadership and an ability to manage complex transportation, mechanical and engineering challenges successfully, with safety and efficiency.

Gery graduated from Drexel University with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Engineering. He also holds a Master of Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Gery M. Williams III

Gery M. Williams III

Executive Vice President,
Service Delivery & Operations