Some Conversations with CR and UP About Terminal Computers

Wong, Peter

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Some Conversations with CR and UP About Terminal Computers

1979-01-05
By Wong, Peter

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Creators:

Wong, Peter
Corporate Creators:

SRI International
Subject/TRT Terms:

Classification Yards Computer Aided Design Railroad Terminals Railroad Yards Simulation Software
Publication/ Report Number:

Project 6364-4
Resource Type:

Other
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Edition:

Informal Note 43
Corporate Publisher:

SRI International
Abstract:

The operating philosophy of a railroad dictates the organization of its data system. ConRail (CR) claimed for example, that yard personnel mainly want a track list, whereas those outside the terminal mainly want to trace cars. At the Union Pacific (UP), data systems are subservient to the needs for running the railroad. For this reason, UP has gone the expensive route of having all yard MIS computers backed up by a fully capable “hot-spare.”
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US Transportation Collection
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