Movements expedited; charges per car and damage to railway equipment materially reduced; installation of electropneumatic car retarders in westbound classification yard at Portsmouth, Ohio; general layout of yard; retarder as remote-controlled air brake; control from two towers; power equipment and other facilities; operated with two tricks; number of employees reduced. (see also Modern Transport, vol. 20, no. 502, Oct. 27, 1928, pp. 10 and 23, 5 figs)
Car retarders reduce cost of yard operation on Norfolk and western
Ry. Age
Railway Age ; 84 , n 24
1928
3 pages
3 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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