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By Lloyd Stagner Frisco put a new yard control system in place at Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Ft. Worth, Springfield, Kansas City and Wichita. Use of IBM 402 punch cards would save much manual work, such as the physical checking of cars. The third electronic retarder yard on the Missouri Pacific system would be built at McGehee, Arkansas, with 24 tracks and a capacity of 840 cars, with room for eventual expansion to 40 tracks and 1400 cars. McGehee was handling between 1252 and 1683 cars per day.