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Railway Age 1990 March N/W Santa Fe Centralized dispatcing Amtrak rolls towards
Railway Age 1990 March
82 pages
Contents
Features
31 Santa Fe: Maintaining a "racetrack"The railroad is investing an expanded, $120 million m/w capital budget on busy main lines where intermodal traffic requires speed and reliability.
35 Dispatching: One goal, two approachesCSXRT and UP have centralized all train control functions. Others, like Santa Fe, are keeping control at the regional or division level. All have their reasons.
39 Shops: Less can be moreBN and Santa Fe are among those railroads that are getting more and higher-quality work done as they travel the shop-consolidation route.
43 Amtrak rolls toward self-sufficiencyAs Amtrak moves steadily toward its goal of covering all operating costs with revenues, President W. Graham Claytor, Jr., describes what still needs to be done.
51 Marketing moxie at MetraChicago's Metra claims to run "the nation's finest" commuter system; steadily rising ridership figures indicate the message is getting across.
Comment
6 Inside
12 Watching Washington
15 Lines on Labor
17 Equipment Financial Trends
82 Perspective
Departments
9 Industry Outlook
10 Market Outlook
57 People in the News
59 Letters
61 Meetings
63 Products
72 Literature
75 100 Years Ago
75 Advertising Sales
81 Advertisers Index
Update
18 Steady climb seen in freight car deliveries, from 30,400 in 1990 to 46,500 in 1994
19 Where intermodal is headed: A TT view
21 BN and USSR will exchange rail expertise
21 India venture will make Timken bearings
23 EMD improves 60 Series software
23 Indiana Hi-Rail adds three lines
23 UP plans big track spending
23 W.H. Miner sells Railcar Services
23 Columbus gets new intermodal facility
23 C&NW recalls shop workers
25 Pittsburgh: Maglev capital of America?
26 NYCTA opens new fabrication shop
26 $15 billion for New York transit?
26 BART board acts on 12-mile extension
28 Virginia finds a bargain in Brazil: A $700,000 commuter car
28 For Transit Expo '90, 400-plus exhibitors
29 San Diego commuter line to open in '92
29 Farebeaters are Metro-North target
29 Incentive fares planned by CTA
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