LINEAR-MOTORIZED CAR BOOSTER-RETARDER L4

Intended to contribute to automation of yard work on sorting tracks, this system catches automatically freight cars, which run into sorting tracks at widely varying speeds, boosts, retards, releases them at a safe coupling speed or stops them. It is program-controlled or remote-controlled by radio.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/3127232
• Corporate Authors:

  Ken-yusha, Incorporated

  1-45-6 Hikari-cho, Kokubunji-shi
  Tokyo,   Japan 
• Publication Date: 1969-12

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Railway Technical Research Institute, Quarterly Reports
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Railway Technical Research Institute/Tetsudo Gijutsu Kenkyujo
  • ISSN: 0033-9008
  • Serial URL: http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Couplers; Freight cars; Radio control; Railroad cars; Railroad terminals; Railroad yards; Retarders (Concrete); Technology
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Old TRIS Terms: Retarders
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072986
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Association of American Railroads
• Report/Paper Numbers: Quart. Rpt
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 29 1975 12:00AM