On 2024-05-24 15:26, Billy Croan wrote:
What on Earth are they doing? I mean it's trains so like, scheduling, billing, signaling?
I don't know what particular project this is. Last time I talked to KC Southern they had a fairly small Linux team. They were working to get the systems that had done those things migrated from an old mainframe to a simulation running on RHEL.
They also have a Positive Train Control project - that involves a variety of hardware, embedded devices and such. Also human-life critical.
And their location is subject to the KC MO 1% income tax I assume, unless they're grandfathered out of it somehow for being a railroad?
There are apparently some costs incurred in the provision of the city infrastructure. They can not operate on a pro bono basis.