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Railway Age 2002 February
40 pages
Contents
Departments
1 Industry Indicators
6 Industry Outlook
8 Market
32 People
32 100 Years Ago
32 Meetings
32 Advertising Sales
33 Products
33 Company Index
33 Advertising Index
34 Professional Directory
36 Classified
Commentary
4 From the Editor
40 Best Practices
Rail update9 Fourth-quarter earnings; Capital forecast for 2002.
Small-road update11 More deals at RailAmerica; CPR to shed Alberta line.
Transit update12 Amtrak Reform Council proposes the future.
World update13 Smartcards getting smarter; Ireland rail.
Features
15Coming to your Class I: Remote control-U.S. railroads and their biggest operating union appear ready to march together-and very carefully-into the age of locomotive remote control.
17Montreal: A growing role for rail-Record ridership levels and a call for more services could result in C$3.4 billion worth of improvements.
20Smart and smarter at the MBTA-A smartcard/swipe card combo will do more than collect fares.
23Holding the line-Elastic and specialty fasteners bind the tracks together under fast-moving, heavy trains.
29Strategic sourcing spreads-Railroads and suppliers are moving toward long-term relationships based on total cost of ownership.
30Tomorrow's railroad?-Whatever happens in any Amtrak restructuring, intercity passenger trains will continue to be operated on freight railroads. Who will operate them?
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