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Railway Age 2006 May Great grain strain New tools for the C&S trade
Railway Age 2006 May
60 pages
Contents
Departments
1 Industry Indicators
6 Industry Outlook
8 Market
48 100 Years Ago
48 Meetings
49 People
50 Products
53 Website Directory
54 Advertising Sales 54 Advertising Index
55 Professional Directory
56 Classified
Commentary
4 From the Editor
10 Financial Edge
12 Point of View
60 World Perspective
Rail update14 BNSF: Velocity is everything; "Final" report on remote control isn't the last word; UP PTC project targets interoperability.
Transit update20 Why Caltrain didn't bite the Bullets; Ottawa selects Siemens consortium; Will "containerized checkpoints" become the norm?
Features
25 The great grain strain-Railroads and shippers have always struggled over this commodity. Can a middle ground be found? By Greg Gormick, Contributing Editor.
34 New tools of the trade-From simple splices to high-tech monitoring and reporting, new signal maintainer tools are boosting productivity and improving safety. By Tom Judge, Engineering Editor.
38 Stopping "silent killers"-Faster, more reliable detection methods are under development to stop rail flaws in their tracks. By Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor.
43 Dispatching in Chicago gets a face-lift-Amtrak worked with Digital Concepts to develop a new CTC system for the Chicago Control Center.
44 LRVs, the next generation-Innovation and advanced technology are beginning to be seen in a new generation of North American light rail vehicles after two decades during which, for the most part, the status quo ruled. By Julian Wolinsky, Contributing Editor.
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