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Railway Age 2000 January
84 pages
Contents
Departments
1 Industry Indicators
6 Industry Outlook
8 Market
72 People
73 100 Years Ago
73 Meetings
73 Advertising Sales
74 Products
75 Reviews
75 Letters
76 Company Index
76 Advertising Index
77 Professional Directory
79 Classified
Commentary
4 Inside
12 Financial Edge
14 In Transit
16 Watching Washington
84 Policy Perspective
35 Railroader of the Century
Rail update18 For UP, more motor vehicle movements; William C. Vantuono named chief editor of Railway Age; Supply Side; World Update.
Transit update24 Seattle advances rail plans; New terminal for Amtrak Mail & Express; Briefs.
Features
29 BNSF + CN: Colossus of roads?- "The first North American railroad"-the latest megamerger proposal-faces formidable obstacles.
35 Railroader of the Century-Railway Age selects The Railroad Worker.
47 Dispatching emerges from the bunker-Centralized "war rooms" are giving way to regionalized systems as railroads move toward PTS/PTC.
53 Are we there yet?-The slow journey to ECP braking should pick up speed with pending AAR specs. Suppliers are ready. Are the railroads?
59 Crosstie replacement: A matter of choice-Wood is still king of the road, but concrete and plastics are giving railroads cost-effective options.
64 Passenger rail: Strong, stable, secure-The transit mode sometimes dismissed as a 19th Century throwback rolls into the 21st Century on a growth curve.
69 Poorly performing trucks: How to find a bad actor-Maintenance planning based on actual car behavior-rather than a calendar-is one goal of the Truck Performance Research Consortium.
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