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Article: Why Santa Fe switched. (Superior Rail Testing Performance)
- Article from:
- Railway Age
- Article date:
- June 1, 1992
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Atsf contracted with private companies for rail flaw detection-both to save money to benefit from new technologies surpassing "anything we were capable of."
Every major railroad spends a lot of money on the operation of rail flaw detection equipment. Until last March 1, Santa Fe was the last major U.S. railroad to do the job in-house, using its own equipment and personnel.
On March 1, that changed. Rail flaw detection on Santa Fe is now done by contractors, with Sperry Rail Service handling the western half of the railroad and Herzog Services Inc. (which recently acquired the technology of SStech Railway Technology) doing the work on the eastern ...