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High-Speed Passenger Rail Tie-Ballast Interaction

This Research Results Report presents evidence of poor tie support and increased applied loads that were used to determine the “root cause” of transient and permanent vertical displacements at two Amtrak bridge transitions. These results are from a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) study on...