One man seated at control machine in Pittsburgh will route trains on Pittsburgh and Lake Erie's 180 mi of mainline by pushbutton control using route control machine; in typical day, traffic count revealed 44 train operating; traffic peaks appear between 3 to 8 p.m. and 6 to 9 a.m.; railroad will be streamlined from four- and three-track mainline to double and single track mains; solid-state, high-speed type 549 code system sends controls from tower control machine to each of field stations over wire pair on pole line or in cable; additional information such as crew names, consists, tonnage, and caboose, can be processed on computer.
P and LE centralizes control of its 180 miles of mainline
Ry Signaling Communications
Railway Signaling and Communications ; 60 , n 10
1967
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Railroad centralizes machine operations
Engineering Index Backfile | 1943
Fiat Centralizes Diesel Engine Activities
Automotive engineering | 1983
|MoPac centralizes stores shipments
Engineering Index Backfile | 1965
Great northern rolls up 200,000 mainline diesel miles per month
Engineering Index Backfile | 1945
|Pennsylvania centralizes general repairs
Engineering Index Backfile | 1937