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Articles in July, 2004 issue of Railway Age

• 33rd annual car & locomotive repair directory
• STB asks Class I's for peak-season plans
• GRL
• Come to the RSI Railroad Quality Conference
• The small-supplier saga: small companies have shifted their focus from survival to doing well in an improving market. It remains to be seen just how well they can do, given increased pressure on margins
  by John T. Kelsh
• Electric flash-butt welding machine
• Is 1% growth in revenue market share too much to ask?
  by William C. Vantuono
• Can we handle it? As the peak shipping season looms, the railroads are scrambling to prepare for what could be a bonanza—or a big problem
  by William C. Vantuono
• Two-tech fuel cost taming: high diesel fuel prices impacting your bottom line? Want to be a better neighbor? Here's a potential solution, as evaluated by BNSF
• Cattron-Theimeg, Inc
• New York City Transit
• RELCO acquires locomotive operating leases from Joseph
• Construction of a six-mile extension to the Metro Gold light rail system in Los Angeles is set to begin in August following the award of a $600.4 million design/build contract to a joint venture led by the Washington Group
• Passenger protection
• DC/DC converters for DIN rail mounting
• RFP issued for $804 million PATH investment
• Farebox recovery: how 14 systems compare
• The Federal Transit Administration has moved the Dulles Corridor Rail Project into preliminary engineering—"the second phase of a three-part process in which the project's design, scope, and cost are refined before construction can begin."
• CSX
• Burlington Northern and Santa Fe
• First quarter crossing fatalities rise
• New rail line to link China and Germany
• Virginia Railway Express
• TCC-IV Side Bearings
• Obituary
• We're surviving. How can we thrive?
  by Dennis F. Sullivan
• Union Switch & Signal, Inc
• Greenbrier receives orders for 7,000 cars
• Transtar
• New from CSXT: more-precise shipment tracking
• Metrorail's new COO
• 2004 Intermodal directory
• Website directory
• "Hold that door"
• Burlington Northern and Santa Fe
• Amtrak
• MPL Technology
• Greenbrier will supply railcars to Iraq
• My network or your? Wireless communication technologies are helping railroads integrate systemwide data and voice to improve service and productivity
  by Marybeth Luczak
• Upgraded A-721-B Angle Valve
• Bank regulation complexity is getting worse
  by Anthony Kruglinski
• Georgetown Rail Equipment Co
• Industry indicators
• Sound Transit
• New insurer comes online
• WMATA austerity budget includes fare hikes
• Lube systems: grease vs. friction modifiers
  by Eric Wolf
• Fastener thread form
• Digital traffic control update
• Suppliers to transit officials: help us help you
• Modesto & Empire Traction
• CSX Transportation
• Former NS officer moves to CSXT
• Bombardier
• Amsted Rail Group has consolidated the engineering functions of its subsidiaries—ASF-Keystone, Brenco/QBS, and Griffin Wheel Co.—into the Engineering and New Product Development groups
• Digital operation and maintenance manuals
• PTC: too soon to take a position
  by John Samuels
• MTA of Harris County
• BNSF ordered to pay rate reparations
• Portec
• Rail's newest grassroots effort launched
• Light rail expansion in Ottawa?
• Rail and tie dolly
• Europe and railfreight: open for business
  by David Briginshaw
• What follows the Millennium? As the Vancouver region expands rail transit, will it stay with innovative, highly successful—but more expensive—SkyTrain technology?
  by Julian Wolinsky
• Staying in constant contact: heavier trains put tremendous stress on freight car suspensions and carbodies. Improved components like constant-contact side bearings are helping ease the load
  by Tom Judge
• Norfolk Southern Corp
• DaimlerChrysler
• RailAmerica fills top posts
• Cubic
• Meetings
• Protective rail boot
• R&W Machine
• Union Pacific Corp
• Amtrak orders switchers for NYC
• New STB members confirmed
• Originally scheduled to last one month, the test of a bomb-detection device at the New Carrolton, Md., suburban rail station was ended one week ahead of schedule in May
• interlocking devices
• Composite sound barriers
• Pittsburgh reopens Overbrook Line

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