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Fundamental Track Gage Widening Tests Using the Track Loading Vehicle

In early 1991, a series of fundamental track gage widening tests were conducted at the Transportation Test Center. Tests, using the Track Loading Vehicle (TLV), were performed to provide fundamental knowledge about the manner in which wheel drop derailments occur, to establish data about current...

Engineering Data on Selected North American Railroad Passenger Car Trucks

This report presents the results of an effort to compile truck and population data for the U.S. fleet of railroad passenger cars, and to describe the different passenger car truck designs and design features used in the United States. The report provides a detailed discussion of the functions of a...

EMI Testing of a High Speed Trainset: German Intercity Express (ICE)

[From the Introduction] A series of tests were performed to investigate the potential for electromagnetic interference (EMI) from the operation of the German Inter-City Express (ICE), a high speed trainset, on the North-East Corridor (NEC). The primary objective of the testing and analysis effort...

Amtrak Thruway Bus Service and the Private Bus Industry

This report reviews the nature and extent of Amtrak's thruway feeder bus service and its effect On non- subsidized, private bus service. The "effect" on private bus service is defined as the number of potential passengers and their associated revenues that are "lost" by the private bus industry due...

The Federal Railroad Safety Program: 100 Years of Safer Railroads

This document details the history of railroad safety in the last one hundred years. It includes historic counting of employee fatalities as well as information about safety legislation, including: The First Safety Appliance Act (1893), The Second Safety Appliance Act (1904), The Hours of Service...

Tank Car Manufacturing/Repair/Retest Facility Evaluation Form

An evaluation form has been developed to aid Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) inspectors in recording data when examining tank car manufacturing and repair facilities, when inspecting newly constructed cars, or when examining cars which have been repaired or retested. Instructions and...