ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, March 21, 1996 TAG: 9603210020
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B7 EDITION: METRO
Litton Poly-Scientific of Blacksburg was given the Security Industry Association's Judge's Choice Award last week at the International Security Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas.
The recognition was for a new product designed by Litton that provides for the transmission of multiple closed-circuit television signals over one strand of optical fiber.
Litton Poly-Scientific makes a variety of security products, including access controls, burglar alarms and closed-circuit television products. The Security Industry Association conducts the new-product awards program twice a year to recognize innovative security products and services. -Staff report Railroad freight traffic gains 3.4 percent
Increases in coal and grain car loadings led a 3.4 percent advance in freight traffic on the nation's railroads during the week ending March 9, according to the Association of American Railroads. A total of 351,407 cars were loaded, compared with 339,952 last year.
Freight moving in trailers and containers, which can travel by ship or truck as well as train, is not included in the figures. Those loadings stood at 153,649, virtually unchanged from last year, the association said.
For the first 10 weeks of the year, loadings stood at 3.3 million, down 4.2 percent from last year, and intermodal freight amounted to 1.49 million trailers and containers, down 1.7 percent.
The U.S. railroads that report to the association account for 91 percent of car loadings and 97 percent of intermodal freight. -Staff report
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