C.N.R. report

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Next time you drive your car across a C.N.R. railway crossing in the great Lakes Region that is protected by automatic gates or signals, ponder this fact: the electrical circuitry that causes their operation was probably designed by a woman! Hungarian-born and educated Mrs. Elisabeth Csak, P.Eng. is the only woman signal engineer in Canada, and probably the whole world, and traces her interest in electrical engineering and railways to her father, who built the first electric locomotive to run in Budapest. Mrs. Csak, educated at Budapest University worked as a circuit designer for the Hungarian State Railways prior to her immigration to Canada following the Hungarian revolution in 1957, and joined the Canadian National as a circuit designer with the Great Lakes Region Signal Department on arrival here. (from the Professional Engineer and Engineering Digest)

Railways: C.N.Rys.

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