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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1957)
"""""par. FW ilroads Rushing Into Automation Statesman, Salem, Ore, Sun., June 9, 57 (Sec. II)-2l By WILLIAM rOM NEW YORK. June - Peter Smith is an ordinary (uy who, oa inv jirn day. ha ctjiuiderable? poer. Pete presses buttons. And whfn Pete presses I but ton he Lces up fm(hl tram as il it were a hunk of bolojn. , divvying up the pieces yes call ticm ca. along any lumber of M differrnt railroad, tricks. Prte work at thr control panel in thf hump tower W tht Sew Wk Centrals new freight classi fication yard at Buffalo. Krf'gbt cars to b classified re pushed to the crest of the 1 rump by locomotives whose cre are directed by rad'o and color ligrt vsnals As the cars psed the hump. Pre pushes his null on That sets twitches all atonj the line, send mg one car down one route of trails a cond another route, a third still another route Th ipeed of the cars n controlled by e.r.trotuc retarderi on the wheels Pete is in the center of a rail road revolution Throughout the country rail roads are rushing Into automation and mechanization They re enxa rtmenttnf and adopting new. aer ei 'eehniques II s a gigantic ef fort to maintain or expand lam tngs. to keep Irom sinkipf iota) the red to meet competition from other types 0 tr import a Uon. lalrretttag DrvrltameaU Out oi it h.ive rime soma iav terrMing dev elnpment The Sanix f h.n installed are eral hundred miles 0 continuous drier! rail r s n r 'l i one quar ter nvle long II is tran.ported to the site on railroad Mat car. When the train goes around a herd, the rail just bends with the train The Chesapeake a Ohio is test luff in rnnii itHftplAr 1a iimI nvrrneard murnal boxes on rail road cars Detector units, equip ped ih inlrared lenrev parallel I the tracks When a hot journal I box oes by the detector flasnes j a vtarning and the train it itop- D(K' I The Southern Pacific soon will put into full operation an elec tronic computer system to keep an up-lo-the-minnte check on where its empty box can arr The Northern Pacific is iiuial ling a ? noo-mi'e transcontinental Hia' 'rlepor jr .v-n, IS 'f"est SK'rin nl its t.e in the ccun tr Secretary oi the Year 7 .7- 111 vX;r -;lV 1 fA X'V Vs SACRAMENTO, Ollf , June I-Wit. a plug from ker boss. Mill Sadie Prrlia, of Samara!, was aamed yesterday "Secretary of the Year" by i Rational office equipment firm. SJk li private secretary to Gov. Goodwin J. Knifht. The (overnor wrote a 1 OO-word statement to heln her win the honor ant trip to New York. I AP H lrephotol PerMir "Rln4 Tft " The ("hu ago and North vipsirrn gups its rtievrl fngines a pcrnxlic ' hlood test with a device known a qiiantnmripr This delects potential engine trouble by mo unt a check on the engine s luel. The Pennsylvania uawa 195 tele srsion cameras and in television receivers. making the world s largest closed circuit television Installation, at its ticket sales bu reau in New York's Penn Station. The New Haven later this year W'l ins! a 1 1 a new electronic ticket reservation system The tirket agent, by psjnchinj keys on a machine, resembling I cash regis ter may determine in moments just what apsnce u available on am train I w a month ahead A large number ol other elec tronic and mechanical contrap tions are used on the nation s Hi 111 nulrs o( Irmk But prooaM) the three most Important are rnish button yards centralized trnltic control '("Tt' and new of fice machines Illinois Central rslaMished the first push button yard at its Mark ham Yards, near Chicago Other railroads which have them include Seaboard Air Line Northern Pa cific, Santa Ti. lama Pascific. Frisco. Pennsylvania. Southern Pacific. Milwaukee and Southern The ohiect of CTC is to make one track do what lo formerly did Tht New York Central, com pletmj CTC rn its line Irom Cleve land In Ruffaln this year, gained three million dotlan from salvage 'of excess track I Here a how CTC worU A man sits at an electronic con trol panel. Tiny lights oa the panel show htm the exact Iocs tion of every tram in his division All the signala and twitches along that division arr operated through remote control by thi one man He requlatPi mnvemeni H trains by pulling leveri. Rriulla traffic flows more smoothly, swiftly Costa are cut The Missouri Tactile says that use of CTC has resulted in itv ings of from ZS to M per cent when compared with operations lover the same trackage without jCTC Approximately 19 per cent of the lower cost it in payroll savings Railroads have gone in for the brainy machines with all the quick answers I'nion Pacific .as electronic computers at its Omaha headquarters Your Btst Talent Scouti Pea'H overyhetclY i'es'eH m ob cr"""-'gi Peat! en i"e'v. o j''v Tell advantages o work"g h you ei fully at you wih .a' low cov' For choice of applicants soon, d'Ol EAA 4-68H A traced w'er gladly O'ves r oo speeding tips, if you wih. cuiwira us ma tm iti now im wr PHONE EiM 4-6811 III mm BROADLOOM RUGS Finished rug$ madt in our own workroom from endi of rolls of our most popular corptting. All from famous mills. Tht group includts Wilton wtavts, vclvtft, iufttd wcavti . in all wool, 1001 nylon, solution dyad royon and cofton. 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