Word: switchyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electronics to improve its service, developed a hydraulic, shock-absorbing coupling gear that permits freight cars to be slammed together without damage. The Southern Pacific has saved itself $1,000,000 yearly by putting inventories under the control of an electronic brain. In a new $7,000,000 switchyard at Houston, it installed a radar-electronic computer control system that shunts a freight car to its proper track, computes weight, windage, distance, then brakes the car to a gentle coupling...
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