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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2005
David Justin Wade, Lee's-Summit, MO (US);
Shawn T. Clark, Leawood, KS (US);
Steve R. Murphy, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
David Justin Wade, Lee's-Summit, MO (US);
Shawn T. Clark, Leawood, KS (US);
Steve R. Murphy, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
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.