New Burlington gravity yard at Cicero, Ill, has 43 classification tracks, and is to handle 3000 cars daily; electropneumatic retarders are automatically controlled to couple cars on respective classification track at speed not over 4 mph; communications include telephones, talk-back speakers, intercoms, radio on locomotives and in offices, tape recorders for car numbers, pneumatic tubes and facsimile.


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    Titel :

    Automatic classification yard in service on Burlington at Chicago


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Ry Signaling Communications


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1958


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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