How to join
Membership of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers is required before you can become a member of the North American section of the IRSE. You will then need to complete a North American section application form which is available below.
AGM
The 2008 AGM will take place in Grapevine, Texas on 22 May 2008. Full details are available here. The section is organising a half day conferene of safety approval issue on Tuesday May 20th at 1300, prior to the RSSI exhibition. The AGM will follow the conference on the 20th May in the early evening.
A report of the 2007 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the North American section, held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on May 24, 2007 is available here.
Other news
The section is about to publish its book "An Introduction to North American Signaling”. Copies will be available in May 2008.
More information
North American section application form
For other information please contact the Secretary/Treasurer or Chairman.
Hon Secretary / Treasurer
Mr. G. L. Young,
750 SW Derby Drive,
Lee's Summit,
MO 64081,
USA
E-mail: Gary.Young@trans.ge.com
Other officers
Vice Chairman:
Dave Thurston, Vice-President, SYSTRA Consulting
Local Committee members:
Joseph F. Noffsinger, Business Leader – Signal Products, GE Transportation Systems-Global Signaling
William A. Petit, Vice President Technology, Safetran Systems Corporation
Vic Babin, Chief Electrical Engineer, Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District
William J. Scheerer, Chief Engineer, General Electric Transportation Systems-Global Signaling
Inauguration
The North American section was organized at its initial meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on May 24, 2002.
2006 AGM
The North American section has returned to Louisville and continued with a standing tradition where members presented topics of interest via presentations. The section was fortunate to have IRSE President John Francis provide a discussion on IRSE international activities, and show interesting and historic videos on railway signaling. The next morning offered a unique visit to CSX’s Osborne classification yard. The section is very much in debt to CSX for providing the members with access to this facility and making the 2006 AGM a great success.