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Northern Indiana/Northwestern Ohio Routing Study

Intercity passenger rail service through Northern Indiana and Ohio plays an important role in the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative (MWRRI). The MWRRI is an on-going effort involving nin Midewest states, Amtrak, an dthe Federal Railraod Administration to investigate and develop an improved and...

Ride Quality Evaluation of High Speed Trains on the Northeast Corridor

A portable system to allow collection and analysis of carbody vibration data according to ISO standard 2631 was designed and built. This system allowed the FRA to record and compare the ride quality performance of foreign and domestic high speed trains operating in revenue service on the Northeast...

California State Rail Plan

Government Code Section 14036 requires the California Department of Transportation (the Department) to complete a 10-year State Rail Plan with both passenger and freight rail elements. The law also provides that the State Rail Plan be updated every two years. The passenger rail element of the...

High Speed Rail (HSR) in the United States

There are two approaches to High Speed Rail: improving existing tracks and signaling to allow trains to travel somewhat faster, typically to as much as 110 miles per hour, generally on track shared with freight trains; and building new tracks dedicated exclusively to high speed passenger rail...

1985 Track Survey: National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)

From September through December 1984, the FRA conducted an intensive survey of all mainline track utilized by Amtrak (see fig. 1). Three automated track geometry railcars -- the latest in railroad state-of-the-art inspection technology -- measured track gage, cross level, wrap, profile, alignment...