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This device is said to constitute a fail-safe condition. The DPS ETD reduced labor costs, as well as the costs of the purchase and upkeep of cabooses. The Brotherhood of Conductors and Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen were also greatly affected by ETD, as this electronic unit replaced two crewmen per train. The widespread use of ETDs has made ...
An AEI tag attached to the side of a freight car. Automatic equipment identification (AEI) is an electronic recognition system in use with the North American railroad industry. Consisting of passive tags mounted on each side of rolling stock and active trackside readers, AEI uses RF technology to identify railroad equipment while en route.
Reporting marks on two Canadian Pacific covered hopper cars; with the left car marked as CP 388686 and the right car marked as SOO 115239. A reporting mark is a code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain rail transport networks.
RPCX - Railroad Passenger Car Numbering Bureau; RPDX - Rapido Trains Inc. RPRC - Richmond Pacific Railroad; RPRX - Railpower Hybrid Technologies Corp; RR - Conrail; RRC - Respondek Railroad Corporation; RREX - Rex Railway; RRLX - Railroad Resources, Inc. (maintenance of way cars) RRLX - Rail Logistics Inc. / Rail Logistics LC [24]
A railroad's car could end up a thousand miles away on another company's tracks. This didn't factor the ever growing fleet of privately owned railroad cars, from companies such as TrailerTrain and Union Tank Car Company, who owned massive fleets of railroad cars, but were not actually railroads. A missing car took time to track down, often ...
Juridical Recording (orange) Blackbox as part of an ETCS equipment Indusi I60 ER24 control device with the DSK recorder inside. A train event recorder – also called On-Train Monitoring Recorder (OTMR), On-Train Data Recorder (OTDR), Event Recorder System (ERS), Event Recorder Unit (ERU), or Juridical Recording Unit (JRU) – is a device that records data about the operation of train controls ...
SA - Savannah and Atlanta Railroad; Central of Georgia Railroad; SAL - Seaboard Air Line Railway; Seaboard System Railroad; CSX Transportation; SAMX - Cargill, Inc. (Seaboard Allied Milling Department) SAN - Sandersville Railroad; SANX - San Angelo Tank Car Line; SAPT - Savannah Port Terminal Railroad; SATX - City Public Service Board of San ...
EBGR - Eastern Berks Gateway Railroad; EBPX - Empire Builder Private Cars; ECBR - East Cooper and Berkeley Railroad; ECCX - Ethyl Canada, Inc. ECDU - ECDC Environmental, LC; ECDX - Edwin Cooper, Inc. ECGX - Alabama Power Company; ECIX - Erman Corporation; ECLX - ELM-Central Rail Leasing, LP; ECNX - ECN Rail Finance, LLC; ECO - Ecorail, Inc ...