REVOLUTION IN FREIGHT CARS - 1974

Increasingly heavy demands are being placed on freight cars today. In addition, new car designs and record car orders are operating car building plants at capacity. These conditions have led to new research in vehicle and component design. The computer is a new useful tool to aid in the studies of car physical and dynamic action and in simulation models of freight car operation.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Murphy-Richter Publishing Company

  20 North Wacker Driver
  Chicago, IL  United States  60606
• Publication Date: 1974-2

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 33-36
• Serial:
  • Progressive Railroading
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Trade Press Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-0817
  • Serial URL: http://www.progressiverailroading.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight cars; Information processing; Research and educational facilities; Simulation; Vehicle design; Vehicle dynamics
• Old TRIS Terms: Freight car design; Freight car dynamics; Research facilities
• Subject Areas: Design; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057487
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Canadian National Railways, Headquarters Library
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 11 1976 12:00AM