Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Conrail (reporting mark CR), formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name. It continues to do business as an asset management and network services provider in three Shared Assets ...
Train Dispatcher is a train simulator of centralized traffic control (CTC) systems. It was originally developed in the 1980s as a training tool for a commercial railroad and was then made available to the public. The software is currently produced by SoftRail (formerly Signal Computer Consultants) for Windows -based computers.
Centralized traffic control. Centralized traffic control (CTC) is a form of railway signalling that originated in North America. CTC consolidates train routing decisions that were previously carried out by local signal operators or the train crews themselves. The system consists of a centralized train dispatcher 's office that controls railroad ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 3,189 miles (5,132 kilometers) The Erie Lackawanna Railway (reporting mark EL), known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Buffalo Line is a railroad line owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. The line runs from Buffalo, New York southeast to Rockville, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line.
Centralized traffic control (CTC) (US) A system in which signals and switches for a given area of track are controlled from a centralized location [65] Ches-C Chessie System's kitten logo; the profile of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's sleeping kitten mascot Chessie appears inside the corporate C logo [66] [67] Cinder dick Railroad police ...
Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) is the commonly used name for modern-day Conrail (reporting mark CRCX), an American railroad company. It operates three networks, the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas, [1] where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway.
CTC-16 is a second-generation design based on the Digitrack 1600, a commercial system marketed from 1972 to 1976. [12] The CTC-16 digital train control system is totally compatible with the Digitrack 1600. Digitrack 1600 was analog in nature, with pulses riding on a constant DC track voltage.