Low-cost path to ECP braking - electronically controlled pneumatic braking for railcars - Rail Update - Brief Article

Railway Age, Jan, 1998

Rockwell Railroad Electronics subsidiary TSM Inc. has developed what it calls the "first low-cost transition path" to Electronically Controlled Pneumatic braking (ECP). TSM says the Electronic Air Brake System (EABS) Emulator[TM] is a complete ECP system that allows car owners to eliminate the standard pneumatic brake valves required with conventional air brakes, thus lowering the cost to equip a car with ECP brakes.

The system allows cars with the Emulator[TM] to operate in trains equipped with AAR-standard ECP brakes and in trains operating with conventional brakes.