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Blunt Impact Tests of Retired Passenger Locomotive Fuel Tanks

The Transportation Technology Center, Inc. conducted impact tests on three locomotive fuel tanks as part of the Federal Railroad Administration’s locomotive fuel tank crashworthiness improvement program. Three fuel tanks, two from EMD F40PH locomotives and one from an EMD F40 locomotive, served as...