Recently developed speed measuring and control systems automatically retard cars and guide them to classification tracks in modern gravity freight yards; System at Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Co, Kirk Yard, Gary, Ind, is described in which cars establish and select their own releasing speeds derived from electronic computer. Before AIEE Fall General Meeting, Chicago, Ill. Paper 55-754. (See also Am Inst Elec Engrs -- Trans (Applications and Industry) n 21 v 74 pt 2 Nov 1955 p 320-4)
Automation for gravity freight classification yards
Elec Eng
Electrical Engineering ; 74 , n 11
1955
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Automation for gravity freight classification yards
Engineering Index Backfile | 1955
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1927
|Yards for sorting freight terminal classification
Engineering Index Backfile | 1901
Lighting of railroad freight-classification yards
Engineering Index Backfile | 1929
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1892
|