All Railway Gazette International articles in August 2002 – Page 4
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Paducah sold
NATIONAL Railway Equipment Co has acquired the assets of loco remanufacturer VMV Enterprises, which closed in April owing to a shortage of orders (RG 5.02 p269). NRE planned to restart production at the Paducah, Kentucky, works on July 8, but did not indicate how many of VMV’s 240 staff it ...
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PEOPLE
The President & Chairman of Mozambique’s Board of Ports & Railways Rui Fonseca has been elected Deputy President of the Southern Africa Railways Association.Amtrak has appointed Jonathan Klein as Chief Mechanical Officer.Dieter Meile has been appointed interim General Manager of Switzerland’s Mittelthurgaubahn, following the departure of Peter Joss.Hans Amacker has ...
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Uruguayan rescue plan
AS THE GOVERNMENT considers options for the future of the Uruguayan railway network, including its transformation into a state-owned infrastructure company, AFE has submitted an investment plan to the office of the President which would see US$45m spent on upgrading a smaller network. AFE Vice-President Roberto Médica said that ’the ...
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Turkish plans
BIDS WERE opened on June 17 for a feasibility study of the planned Polatli - Afyon cut-off in Turkey. Lowest bidder is Akum Mimarlik, at 162 000bn lire. Together with upgrading between Afyon and Usak, the link is intended to shorten the route from Ankara to Izmir (RG 12.94 p808).The ...
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Predicting point wear
CURRENTS in point machine motors can be measured using the PointSenz PCM10 family of waterproof Hall-effect transducers from LEM. Measurements of the DC supply to the point motor are logged to produce a profile of current used against time. A variation from the normal profile may indicate the possibility of ...
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Turning points
GE Transportation Systems Global Signaling has acquired part of Railway Technology Inc’s point machine range. The deal covers RTI’s model 3000, model 3000LP, and model 3000ES Hydra-Switch products. The points machines can be worked remotely from a control centre or locomotive cab, and can be powered either from a local ...
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Publications
Underground to EverywhereStephen HallidayThis entertaining social and economic history of the oldest and largest metro shows how what we now call Enronitis delivered wealth to some unscrupulous promoters but scant dividends to investors. Formation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933 brought public ownership and a flowering of reliable ...
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Sidetrack
Shot to piecesNOW underway in Russia is the disposal of the former Soviet Union’s fleet of rail vehicles equipped to transport and launch SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles. These wagons could be moved around as necessary, so that the missiles could be launched from anywhere on the vast SZD rail network.Scrapping ...
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Torino trials
Sir - I was very interested to read the report about Torino in the latest issue of Metro Report (MR 02 p51). Unfort-unately, it contains a number of errors, and some expectations which I feel are unrealistic.The main error is that the southern end of tram Line 4 has never ...
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