Details about the Product

Brooks Enterprises understands the concerns of transit companies using non-shunting equipment on passenger rail lines. According to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Hi rail equipment involved in accidents is on a national increase. We at Brooks Enterprises, LLC have studied industry demands and those of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Our device will help protect your passenger trains and your maintenance equipment from being at the same place at the same time.

Why have your train controllers play chess games with your non-shunting equipment?

Please join us by becoming safer railway transportation partners.

Brooks Enterprises, LLC.

What is a Shunt?

A by-path in an electrical circuit.

What is a Railway Safety Shunt System?

It is a device that creates an electrical by-path for non-shunting vehicles operating on railroads.

How the Device Works

The Railway Safety Shunt System is a patented device that is designed to be installed on non-shunting railroad equipment. This device will positively connect track circuits from one rail to the adjacent rail, ultimately completing a circuit and thereby creating a shunt.

Signal Shunting Performance of Wayside-based Top of Rail Friction Control Materials (pdf)