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The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) conducted a side impact test of a surrogate DOT-113 tank car at Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to evaluate its performance under dynamic impact conditions and to provide data for the verification and refinement of a computational model....
Legacy locomotives, such as narrow-nose designs manufactured before 1990, were not required to comply with crashworthiness requirements. Therefore, these locomotives afford less crew protection in case of train collisions. In this project, collision posts that offer additional crash...
On May 27, 2021, at approximately 3:51 p.m., CDT, BNSF Railway (BNSF) unit sand train UCPFHGP0-05T (Train 1) with 3 locomotives (1 head end and 2 remote rear end), handling 130 loads, 0 empties, at 5,459 feet with 18,493 trailing tons was moving westbound[1] on the BNSF Chicago Division’s...