Getting wayside data on board: as technology improves, communications between train and wayside boost ability to forecast and prevent locomotive failure and to improve safe, efficient train handling.(Industry Overview)

From: Railway Age | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Sophisticated electronics have replaced hand signals and hooped-up train orders, and the results are paying off in many ways for the railroad industry. Following are some of the most recent developments.

Curt Swenson, market development director for General Motors Corp. Electro-Motive Division, discussed EMD's IntelliTrain remote monitoring and diagnostics for improving locomotive availability and utilization with Railway Age.

"Health data is automatically monitored on board each locomotive in operation," Swenson says. "There are now 3,000 or more different signals ...

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