MOPAC'S "REORGANIZED" GANGS

By combining and reorienting its track maintenance forces, increasing mechanization and concentrating their activities, Missouri Pacific has increased productivity and controlled costs. The use of two crews, with each assigned to lay a single string of rail in the same track a day apart, has been a feature of the new system. Special crews perform other functions such as rebuilding crossings and turnouts. Attention is directed at perennial soft spots with various methods of stabilization being used.

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  Murphy-Richter Publishing Company

  20 North Wacker Driver
  Chicago, IL  United States  60606
• Publication Date: 1977-9

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 89
• Serial:
  • Progressive Railroading
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Trade Press Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-0817
  • Serial URL: http://www.progressiverailroading.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Maintenance of way; Productivity; Welded rail
• Identifier Terms: Missouri Pacific Railroad
• Old TRIS Terms: Track maintenance equipment
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00167506
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Progressive Railroading
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 27 1977 12:00AM