During the Kincaid Fire in Northern California, Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) was required to evacuate their Dispatch Center. Still having a need to run their operations SMART contacted MCS. MCS team members got to work setting up a temporary Rail Operations Center (ROC). SMART provided the team with a few locations for the temporary ROC. The team evaluated the locations and because of forced power outages, determined the most suitable location to be the Petaluma Bridge Tender House. From there, they established the temporary ROC to create a safe, reliable dispatch site. All of this occurred over a single weekend.
May 2017 Stacy and Witbeck, Inc. (SWI), one of the largest and most respected rail transit contractors in the country, has established a new operating subsidiary, Modern Communications Systems, to address a wide variety of communication system requirements related to the rail transit industry. On September 30, 2016 SWI acquired Rail Services Corp. (RSC) of Denver, Colorado and merged RSC operations with Modern Communications Systems (MCS). Effective immediately, MCS has assumed all existing RSC operations through its headquarters in Denver. Through this acquisition and establishing MCS the Modern Team is expanding and diversifying our offerings to provide a broader range of solutions to our customers.