New York Central has installed servo journal checkers at Fairview; unit on each side of track checks car journal moving either way; system transmits journal temperature reports over existing line wires into graphic recorders at Erie, using 20-kc carrier operating on CTC code line; during three week period detectors inspected 541 freight trains on which 70 journals were recorded abnormally hot. (See also Ry Signaling and Communications v 51 n 3 Mar 1958 p 40-1)


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    Title :

    Electronics speeds hot box data to forestall costly train delays


    Additional title:

    Ry Age


    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 144 , n 13


    Publication date :

    1958


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :



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