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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Short line"”.
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Assessing the level of service for shipments originating or terminating on short line railroads
… reliability for freight rail shipments involving short lines in 2006. It is based on an underlying MIT study commissioned by members of the short line railroading industry, including the American Short Line Rail Road Association, and RaiLinc Corporation, a company that provides many …
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Class III / short line system inventory to determine 286,000 lb (129,844 kg) railcar operational status in Kansas and determination of ballast fouling using ground penetrating radar
… and heavier railcars has influenced Class III / short line railroad operation and track maintenance costs. Class III railroads earn less than $38.1 million in in annual revenue and generally operate first and last leg shipping for their customers. In Kansas, Class III railroads operate …
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Tiny Octopuses: The Successes, Struggles, and Failures of Short Lines and Branch Lines in Rural Nevada, California, and Oregon Between 1869 and 1920
Tiny Octopuses tells the story of the short line and branch line railroads that operated throughout Nevada, California, and Oregon between 1869 and 1920. After the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, numerous small railroads arose to link cities, towns, and rural stations to …
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The electromigration drift velocity and the reliability of dual-damascene copper interconnect trees
… Cu dual-damascene segments with different line lengths, both with via-above and via-below geometries, have been carried out. By contrasting the failure characteristics of via-above and via-below structures, the Cu/Si3N4 interface has been identified as the site for void nucleation and the …
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Boundary detection in ultrasonic speckle
… that boundaries between tissue layers appear as lines in ultrasound scans and approach the boundary detection problem as one of detecting lines of unknown orientation. We define a set of ""sticks,"" short line segments of variable orientation that can locally approximate the boundaries. Using the …