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Railway Age 2001 April
76 pages
Contents
Departments
1 Industry Indicators
6 Industry Outlook
8 Market
64 People
66 100 Years Ago
66 Meetings
66 Advertising Sales
67 Products
68 Company Index
68 Advertising Index
69 Letters
70 Professional Directory
72 Classified
Commentary
5 From the Editor
10 Best Practices
14 Point of View
76 Moving People
Rail update16 Bush takes coal off endangered list; Supply Briefs.
Small-road update23 A&M goes independent; Briefs.
Transit update24 California gets new rail plan; In Transit.
World update28 Plasser & Theurer in Poland; Briefs.
Features
31 Who will survive the short line shakeout?-Few people question whether short lines are important to the rail industry. The question is, has their importance diminished?
37 Amtrak's rocky road-Thirty years after accepting the burden from freight railroads to operate intercity passenger trains, Amtrak faces a future that is at once uncertain and promising.
15 How healthy are your locomotives?-Railroads are using real-time information to improve the utilization of these far-flung assets.
19 How CBTC can increase capacity-That and other economic benefits will help drive implementation of a technology that safety improvements alone cannot justify.
53 Working faster, safer-Tending ballast is a challenge, as railroads are becoming more and more demanding. Suppliers are giving railroads much-improved equipment to handle the task.
30 Successful supply chain management-It's really all about sharing information and then acting on it.
32 A "smart" FAST train-How will railroads operate in the future? TTCI tests of advanced wayside and onboard communications technologies are providing some examples.
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