Two modern car-retarder and power-switch equipped classification yards at Boston, Mass., to replace scattered facilities of four principal roads which make up that system; no coordination existed between old facilities; careful study was given to yard location; inbound yard has 28 and outbound has 30 classification tracks; retarders are of electropneumatic type; lower ends of yards have power switches; special communicating systems facilitate and speed yard operation; hump signals and journal oiling equipment.
Modern yards complete solution of B and M. terminal problem
Ry. Age
Railway Age ; 85 , n 1 ; p 5-10
1928
6 pages
6 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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Modern yards solve Boston terminal problem for Boston and Maine
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