This note discusses preliminary thoughts on modifying the SRI developed hump yard profile simulation, PROFILE, to simulate the Dowty retarder system. This simulation model has the capacity of simulating the roll of individual cars from the hump into the classification track, including the operation of the conventional retarder system. This model is described in Appendix I.
A simple design procedure for a Dowty equipped yard has been developed. This procedure has been developed from information contained in several papers...
This note discusses preliminary thoughts on incorporating the logic to represent a conventional retarder yard system into PROFILE. PROFILE is the SRI-...
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