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.
Automatic classification yard in service on Burlington at Chicago
Ry Signaling Communications
Railway Signaling and Communications ; 51 , n 7
1958
11 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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