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Railway Age 1982 July 12 Meet Milly-the-robot C&NW snow fighters
Railway Age July 12 1982 Vol 183 No 13
CONTENTS
FEATURES
15 Midyear report: How strong an upturn?
Railroads expect recovery to be slow and erratic-but the industry entered this recession in such strong shape that it could still show a modest '82 profit.
21 Meet Milly-the-robot
Material-handling Milly and an apprentice welding robot, now installed at UP's Albina Shops, are the first of 11 robots the railroad plans to acquire.
24 AGVS: Automated material flow
Portec has been licensed to build and market a sophisticated automatic guided vehicle system that has already won wide acceptance in Europe.
26 C&NW's snow fighters plan now for winter
Hot-weather planning of cold-weather strategy helps North Western keep its yards and main lines open when others are choked with snow.
29 Transit: Learning to live on reduce income
MARTA, facing both federal funding cuts and lower sales-tax revenues, is moving on several innovative fronts as it strives to make ends meet.
34 Needed: "Innovative mindset and multimodal perspective"
Deregulation, says ICG'S Harry Bruce, can produce profitable innovation-or ruinous rate-cutting. He hopes the former will prevail.
NEWS
4 Short and Significant
7 RoadRailer passes an important test
7 U.S. suppliers eye the Indian market
10 BN negotiates coal contracts
10 TTC computerizes announcements
10 Soo Line gets MN&S
13 SEPTA faces financial crisis
13 What ails the truckers?
13 Lewis tries to reassure BRAC
42 The Railroad Market
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