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Railway Age 1990 August What makes St Louis light rail different CSXRT we want
Railway Age 1990 August
64 pages
Contents
Features
23 CSXT's Jerry R. Davis: "We want this railroad to be the best"CSX Rail Transport's president has been on the job for only about a year, but he's moved fast to formulate a strategy for improving performance, with particular attention to greater locomotive reliability.
45 For Metro-North, 60-mph turnoutsAt Scarsdale, N.Y., M-N has installed its first tangential geometry turnouts specifically designed for high density, high speed passenger operations; more are coming.
50 What's different about St. Louis light railBy using ready-made infrastructure and sticking to a no-frills design, builders of Metro-Link are holding costs down to about $16.5 million per double track mile.
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The Staggers years: Back from the brinkp. 30The railroads have come a long way from the days not so long ago when one in every five miles of track was operated under the gavel of bankruptcy courts. But the comeback journey isn't over.
The myth of the monster trucks ... p. 35If truckers succeed in putting veritable trains of trucks on public roads across the land, the effects could be calamitous-on highway safety, on the environment, on the railroads.
Comment
4 Inside
11 Watching Washington
12 Lines on Labor
13 Equipment Financial Trends
64 Perspective
Departments
9 Industry Outlook
10 Market Outlook
53 Products
54 People in the News
55 100 Years Ago
56 Letters
56 Meetings
63 Advertising Sales
63 Advertising Index
Update
14 Santa Fe's Super Hoppers
15 Supreme Court gets Ohio hazmat appeal
15 ICC approves RGI-Soo deal
15 Griffin Wheel adopts emission-free process
16 "S.M.A.R.T.": First "show", then "tell"
17 BN phasing in new grain-car fleet
17 SP pays for smoke violations
18 Denver Airport orders $84 million AGTS
18 Harbourfront LRT opens in Toronto
18 Bush signs revised Amtrak funding bill
20 TGV consortium pays $100,000 to Texas
20 Light rail requested for Indianapolis
20 Maglev proposed for Las Vegas-Anaheim
21 For an 80-year-old interlocking, a $100 million rehab
21 Milwaukee looks at light rail
21 PATH phasing in QuickCard system
21 UMTA formula grants total $1.5 billion
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