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Effects of Rail Profile Variation

Railroads in various countries including the United States have found that benefits may be obtained by grinding rails to an 'asymmetric' profile rather than to the original 'new' rail profile. To investigate these findings further, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Association of...