DT&I INSTALLS ACI AT CLASSIFICATION YARD

The above article concerns the modernisation of the Detroit Marshalling Yard which now deals with some 1,700 wagons per day. 4 Kar Trak detectors, a computer, and 3 teleprinters, have been installed there, to enable the marshalling yard to be better controlled. A detailed description is given in the article of the whole installation, as well as of its operation, hump-shunting control, etc.

• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  508 Birch Street
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Publication Date: 1968

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 15-19
• Serial:
  • Railway Signaling and Communications
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic car identification; Classification yards; Computers; Railroad terminals; Railroad yards; Yard operations
• Identifier Terms: Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad
• Old TRIS Terms: Automatic switching control
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072975
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Association of American Railroads
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 29 1976 12:00AM