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Rail car tracking system

  • US 20050205719A1
  • Filed: 02/24/2005
  • Published: 09/22/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A rail car tracking system comprising:

  • rail car location equipment mounted to a rail car, the equipment including a transmitter for transmitting rail car location data to a remote receiver and further including an electronically readable tag attached to the rail car for identifying the rail car to a wayside tag reader; and

    locomotive communication equipment mounted in a locomotive and adapted for communication with the rail car location equipment when the rail car and locomotive are coupled into a common train, the locomotive communication equipment being operative to identify the coupled rail car and including a transmitter for transmitting data to the remote receiver, the data including rail car data so that the required data transmission from the rail car transmission equipment is reduced.

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