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RAILWAY TRACK & STRUCTURES, OCTOBER 2023 ISSUE:Preventive rail grinding is a well-established practice for extending rail life. And by optimizing wheel/rail interaction and controlling the development and growth of surface damage like rolling contact fatigue, rail grinding has proven itself to be one of the industry’s best tools for managing one of its most valuable assets.
MINNEAPOLIS –Friction management works. Whether at the gauge face or top of rail, the benefits are widely known and widely quantified.
ATLANTA – The August Digital edition of Railway Track & Structures is now on-line.
ATLANTA – Railway Track & Structures is pleased to announce the appointment of an Editorial Board comprised of industry experts. While I, as Editor-in-Chief and Jennifer McLawhorn, as Managing Editor, will be responsible for the content and production of RT&S our Editorial Board will provide guidance and support to make RT&S more useful to our readers and the railroad industry.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. –Operating practices on North American railroads have changed within recent years. Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) and its variants, which have been adopted by most of the Class 1 railroads, have led to changes in train lengths and speeds. In some cases, railroads are running shorter and faster trains; in most cases, they’re running longer, heavier, and slower trains.