IRON HIGHWAY DUE FOR TEST

The Iron Highway is a concept developed by New York Air Brake as a result of the Association of American Railroads' High Productivity Integral Train Project. This new concept may well be a piece of intermodal innovation to be reckoned with if Phase 1 plans warrant a Phase 2 prototype construction endeavor. The Iron Highway, which looks like a truck, but functions like a train, would have center loading and unloading, ac proppulsion, and fully automatic coupling. The new concept would have very positive economic impacts.

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• Publication Date: 1990-2

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 31
• Serial:
  • Railway Age
  • Volume: 191
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-8826
  • Serial URL: http://www.railwayage.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Innovation; Intermodal transportation; Railroad trains; Testing; Tractor trailer combinations; Vehicle design
• Old TRIS Terms: Iron highway
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Motor Carriers; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00492299
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM