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Railway Age 2000 September
132 pages
Contents
Departments
8 Market
9 Industry Indicators
10 Industry Outlook
112 People
113 100 Years Ago
113 Meetings
113 Advertising Sales
115 Products
120 Reviews
123 Professional Directory
124 Company Index
124 Advertising Index
126 Classified
Commentary
6 From the Editor
12 Supply Side
16 Point of View
20 Financial Edge
132 Policy Perspective
Rail update24 Kansas City "flyover" cuts costly delays; Supply Briefs.
Transit update36 Bombardier gets Adtranz for a "bargain"; In Transit
World update44 Spoornet upgrades electric locomotives; Briefs.
Features
47 Innovation by design: Next-generation freight cars take shape- Builders are pushing ahead with new designs to meet the market's needs.
61 2000 Short Line and Regional Railroad of the Year Awards-Arkansas Midland, Bessemer & Lake Erie take top honors.
73 No-hassles heavy haul-South Africa's Spoornet has discovered that operating unit coal trains can be "as smooth as silk."
77 Behind the scenes workhorses-Mobile railcar movers are helping free up locomotive power.
81 Just say when-Tips on tapping the time-value market.
89 Mexico's railroads: On a fast learning path-Training like that offered by the AAR Mexico Mechanical Seminar, presented with Railway Age, is helping privatization work.
95 California's passenger rail success story-A billion-dollar investment is paying off in steadily rising ridership.
103 Building an "enterprise data" network-How an integrated approach provides a more flexible operating environment for dispatchers and controllers.
105 A better ride for bulk freight-TTCI's test program for premium trucks has been expanded to include bulk commodity cars.
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