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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
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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
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