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Progressive Railroading 1988 July Regionals reborn Grangers Car costs
Progressive Railroading 1988 July
Features
AAR Research: Making railroads stronger 27
AAR research continues to ferret out developing opportunities and problems, and to address both on behalf of the entire railroad industry.
Regionals set stage for next round 34
Labor and economic problems have cast a pall, but hope for further development of regional railroads remains well-founded.
Santa Fe steps up tie renewals 38
Productivity geared to higher-capacity machines pays off for Santa Fe.
On the path to fleet renewal 40
Port Authority Trans-Hudson finds an economic way to rehabilitate its existing fleet and acquire new cars as well.
UMTA's cost-cutting contest 41
The Urban Mass Transportation's new railcar-cost containment program offers awards for innovative operators.
ATCS's system engineer 43
The role of the systems engineer in the advanced train control system project has been an important one. And potentially it can help meet other railroad needs.
Raceland claims the lead in freight car painting 48
Automated movement through three stations allows new facility at CSXT's Raceland shop to turn out 20 painted cars per shift.
Specialists in wear control 50
They have proved that a few pieces of plastic can keep a 100-ton running longer between mine and power plant.
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