BN: HIGH-TECH TRAINING

Highlighted is Burlington Northern's Technical Training Center on the campus of Johnson County Community College, in Overland Park, Kansas. The Center is touted to be the best training facility in the railroad industry and provides computer-based training, has a full-motion TS-3 locomotive simulator, and four TS-2 simulators. Training is provided for locomotive-engineer, communications, control-systems (signal), maintenance-of-way, and train-dispatcher personnel.

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• Publication Date: 1989-7

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 39-40
• Serial:
  • Railway Age
  • Volume: 190
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-8826
  • Serial URL: http://www.railwayage.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computers; Facilities; Simulation; Training; Training simulators
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486520
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM