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What does OCS stand for?

Overhead Catenary System (power)


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Since 1980, Dossert has expanded its transportation business into the 'Light Rail' area by providing overhead catenary systems and components to some of the major rail companies in the United States.
The Union represents the men and women who build and maintain the railroad track, buildings and bridges and overhead catenary system for Amtrak.
Key components included excavating and lining two 21-foot diameter twin bore tunnels, excavating and constructing two underground rail stations, six platform stations, installing mainline track, and designing/installing overhead catenary systems.
The project also includes two underground stations, six aboveground stations, and installation of the overhead catenary system, along with considerable excavation, and signaling and communications systems.
BMWE members build and maintain the tracks, bridges, buildings and overhead catenary system on Amtrak's system.
Project highlights include: -- Designing, furnishing and installing the track and wayside signal system, track switches, highway crossings, and interfaces with the existing signaling system -- Installing a new bi-directional signal system with both cab and wayside signals -- Installing a new fiber optic communication system -- Modifying and renewing the overhead catenary system at Newtown Junction, Tabor, Jenkintown and Carmel -- Demolishing Logan Station and expanding Jenkintown Station In addition to this project, Encompass is currently finishing SEPTA's Girard Avenue Light Rail Infrastructure Renewal project.
The BMWE is the labor Union which represents 2,300 workers employed by Amtrak who construct and maintain the railroad track, buildings and bridges and overhead catenary system.
Recent transit projects include: the reconstruction of the overhead catenary system on the Mission Line Trolley in San Francisco; signalization improvements for the New York City Transit Authority's Jamaica Line; and the installation of power rectifier equipment at the Sea-Beach Avenue T substation in Brooklyn, N.

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