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Improved Quality Truck Castings

A review of the car repair billing database shows that many bolsters and side frames are removed from service each year due to cracking or breaking. Derailment-related costs due to bolster and side frame failures total approximately $9 million per year. Although the number of removals may not be...

Characterization of Relatively Large Track Geometry Variations

An analysis of existing track geometry data is described from which the signatures of key track geometry variations related to severe track-train dynamic interaction are identified and quantified. Mathematical representations of these signatures are defined and presented. Track geometry descriptors...

Analysis of Locomotive Cabs

This report covers research that was performed to investigate the present crashworthiness state of in-service locomotives and design applications for new locomotives to protect occupants from serious or fatal injury during collision conditions. The tasks that were performed are: (1) identify past...

Accident/Incident Bulletin No. 150: Calendar Year 1981

[From the Introduction] To comply with the provisions of 49 CFR 225, all railroads are required to file monthly accident/incident reports with the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Office of Safety. Bulletin 150 summarizes all reportable railroad accidents/incidents that occurred in the...

A Demonstration Project for Locomotive Engineer Training

This report presents the findings of the joint venture demonstration training project conducted by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Volume I contains a survey of the literature, a job task inventory and a set of guidelines for instructional...

Vibration Testing of Railroad Tank Car Specimens

Vibration tests of fireproof coatings were performed on test specimens measuring 4 feet square. Specimens were simulations of railroad tank car side- wall panels. Samples of fireproof coatings from three different manufacturers were tested. The vibration test consisted of application of a...

Vibration Test Requirements for a 70 Ton Boxcar: Revision 1

The Federal Railroad Administration is to perform a parallel effort of test and analysis of a 70 ton boxcar configuration. The program objectives are to develop and demonstrate a validation procedure, to provide an analytic capability of predicting accurate over-the-road boxcar response...