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Progressive Railroading 1980 August MoPac Centralized traffic control Chessie
Progressive Railroading 1980 August
Signs of the Times 9
New Technologies in C&S 19
A listing of those companies exhibiting at Washington D.C. at the annual communication and signal meeting, August 18-21
Washington Vignettes 23
Progressive Railroading's Profiles 25
RICHARD M. BRESSLER, Burlington Northern
BARBARA RUST, Santa Fe
From the Publisher's Notebook 27
No Cinch in Energy Crunch
Electronic "Chips" for ACI
Editorial 30
Capital and the Challenge of Growth
Make It Run! ... a Transit Theme for the '80's 33
By Frank J. Cihak, director-technical and research services, American Public Transit Association. Transit technology for the decade will focus on reliability via simplified new designs and improvements of existing equipment while also maintaining continued R&D efforts
Rail Transit Reliability 41
Are rail transit passengers really impressed with all the frills of solid comfort that some systems attempt to provide? The overwhelming experience of most transit authorities in attendance at the recent APTA meetings is that most would prefer reliability above all else, a quality really only possible with simplified designs of all equipment
Consolidation 56
Missouri Pacific will soon reach a milestone when it completes a project next year that will put all its main lines under CTC from three centers. Already operating are the centers at Kansas City and No. Little Rock under advanced relay logic; to come: a new center at Houston that will be computer-controlled
Total Communications Exchanges 62
It's based on microprocessor technology and puts a new dimension on communications control for both main line dispatchers and at terminals. Now, the technology is on line at its first major installation: the Chessie Systems new Queensgate yard at Cincinnati
Amtrak's LRC's 71
The first of two Light/Rapid/Comfortable trainsets from Canada was delivered to New Haven, Conn. sporting Amtrak colors, there for further testing on the Northeast Corridor. The 120-mph consists have undergone extensive testing in Canada plus several runs on the Pueblo test track
Automated Auditing of Car Repairs 73
Trailer Train is currently maintaining its fleet, including Railbox cars, at a cost of $200-million yearly. It also maintains an auditing operation that is able to cope with these expenditures via an imaginative computer program that also gets a handle on the "bad actors" among shops and components
Heavy Duty Yard for DT&I "Pigs" 81
For the 1st phase of its $1.6-million upgrading of piggyback facilities, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton is preparing to accommodate heavy wheel loadings and to improve drainage with an extensive use of geotextiles under yard roadways
New Products-Materials 82
People in the News 86
Meetings 88
Advertisers' Directory 90
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