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Railway Age 2006 February Coal crunch St Louis in transit Crosstie options
Railway Age 2006 February
40 pages
Contents
Departments
1 Industry Indicators
6 Industry Outlook
8 Market
33 People
33 100 Years Ago
33 Meetings
34 Products
35 Website Directory
36 Advertising Sales
36 Advertising Index
37 Professional Directory
38 Classified
Commentary
4 From the Editor
40 Short Line/Regional Perspective
Rail update
9 UTU, BLET join forces on one-person crews; "Operationalizing" FRA; Who will fill STB's top spot?; Mark Connolly joins S-B Rail Group.
Transit update
13 CBTC reaches a milestone in New York; Building bridges at Amtrak.
Features
15 The great coal crunch-Who got hurt and how much, and what the longterm fallout may be. By Luther S. Miller, Senior Editorial Consultant.
18 Big business for small railroads-Developing profitable niche markets and improving Class I asset utilization have brought short lines success in the coal business. By Roy Blanchard, Contributing Editor
22 How technology eases tight capacity-Suppliers have developed innovative ways to help railroads and their coal customers improve car cycle time. By William C. Vantuono, Editor
26 Gateway to the future-With a fall launch of the Cross County extension, St. Louis MetroLink is hoping to leverage public enthusiasm and continue growing. By Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
28 Testing tie types-Current crosstie research and testing is geared toward offering railroads more choices in materials. By Tom Judge, Engineering Editor
31 A new twist on bad actors-TTCI is analyzing wayside detector data to identify poorly performing cars and is conducting teardown inspections to confirm results. By Harry M. Tournay, Scott Cummings, and Ron Lang, TTCI, for Railway Age.
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