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Article: Roadway for the 21st century. (rail transportation) (Cover Story)
- Article from:
- Railway Age
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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Improved methods, materials, and machines - plus a willingness to innovate - will be needed to enable a shrinking physical plant to handle growing traffic demands.
In keeping America's railroads ahead of the demands for rail transportation in the 1990s and into the 21st Century, do railroads need to be re-invented? No, of course not.
But a certain rebuilding of the railroad fixed plant may be required if the industry is going to meet the new demands, involving increased traffic, heavier axle loads for bulk-commodity cars, higher speeds, and greater reliability for intermodal service - and improved safety.
In the past decade, for Class I ...