New Burlington retarder classification yard at Cicero, Ill, is equipped with modern communications devices including radio, tape recorders for car checking, talk-back loudspeakers, and direct intercoms for key personnel; facsimile equipment transmits waybill data; yard also has complete system of pneumatic tubes to send waybills, train consists, switch lists and other papers between offices and towers.


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    Title :

    Communications speed yard work


    Additional title:

    Ry Age


    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 145 , n 3


    Publication date :

    1958


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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