General Electric Company

David Justin Wade

Shawn T Clark

Steve R Murphy

A multi-use wayside railway control system for installation and use in operating wayside railway equipment in a railway wayside application selected from among a plurality of differing railway wayside applications usable in the control system. The system includes detectors responsive to and generating data indicative of operating conditions of the selected wayside application A controller receives data from the detectors and is responsive to the data for operating the wayside equipment. A programmed processor associated with the controller includes a software program storage device for storing a plurality of separately selectable operating programs, each of the operating programs comprising application specific information for a selected wayside application and corresponding configuration of wayside equipment. A control display unit enables selection of one of the stored operating programs compatible with the selected wayside application and corresponding wayside equipment configuration for use by the controller.

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Lee's Summit, MO, United States of America

David Justin Wade