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Assessing the Findings of a Derailment Investigation: Was the Right Cause Found?

January 21, 2025 | Filed under: Derailment, Gary Wolf, Heavy Haul, Wheel/Rail Interaction, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik The Great Dismal Swamp. An ominous name. And in June of 2019, it was the site of a Norfolk Southern derailment. At NS, all derailments are investigated to determine the cause(s) and to provide data that could help prevent future incidents. Brad Kerchof, formerly Director of Research …

A Culture of Change: How the Railroad Industry Can Embrace an Evolving World

December 30, 2024 | Filed under: Heavy Haul, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik Corina Moore is an agent of change. A champion of embracing change, too. Her transformative tenure as Ontario Northland’s Chief Operating Officer (2010 – 2014) and President and CEO (2014 – 2022) saw the railway emerge from divestment, deep financial woes, and an uncertain future to a …

Wheel/Rail Profile Optimization on Wiener Linien’s Vienna Underground line U6

December 6, 2024 | Filed under: Rail Transit, Wheel/Rail Interaction, Wheel/Rail Profile, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik One of the surest and most common signs that something is amiss at the wheel/rail interface is accelerated wear of the wheels, rail, or both. Occasionally the solution to the problem is straight-forward and site-specific. But more often, abnormal wear appears as a symptom of fundamental, systemic …

Vehicle/Track Interaction from a Car Design Perspective

November 3, 2024 | Filed under: Vehicle Design, Vehicle/Track, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik Wheel/rail interaction doesn’t end at the wheel and rail. Sometimes it doesn’t even begin there. The lateral and vertical forces that affect the wheel/rail interface owe much to the design of cars and couplers — design choices that might seem ancillary to the subject, but are in …

Using Digital Twin Simulations of Automated In-Train & Vehicle/Track Dynamics to Reduce Derailment Risks

August 10, 2024 | Filed under: Big Data, Derailment, Vehicle/Track, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik “Engineers predict things,” said Cory Hogan, Director of Vehicle Dynamics Studies at Ensco Rail Inc. As computing power and modelling have become more sophisticated, engineers have increasingly used digital-twins to model vehicle, track, and component behavior with incredible fidelity. Like engineers, digital twins can be great predictors. …

Mitigating Transverse Defects and Reducing Non-testable Areas: Grinding Strategies at CSX

August 6, 2024 | Filed under: Measurement Systems, Rail Grinding, Rail Maintenance, WRI Conference

By Jeff Tuzik Transverse defects are among the most costly and dangerous rail defects that freight railroads contend with. Across all Class 1 railroads, transverse defects are responsible for roughly 31 percent of broken rails system-wide; so mitigating the growth of transverse defects and detecting their presence via internal flaw …

Stuart Grassie is the recipient of Wheel Rail Seminars’ 2024 Worth Award

June 21, 2024 | Filed under: Rail Transit, Wheel/Rail Interaction, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik Stuart Grassie, Principal, Rail Measurement Ltd and Stuart Grassie Engineering Ltd, is the recipient of the 2024 Worth Award. The award, presented by Wheel Rail Seminars at the annual Wheel/Rail Interaction conference in May, is named for Art Worth, who was Manager of Standards and retired as …

An Introduction to Rail Grinding on the Delhi Metro

June 21, 2024 | Filed under: International, Rail Grinding, Rail Transit, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik Rail transit properties around the world all contend with the same general issues. The corrugation on track in San Francisco is the same as corrugation on track in New Delhi. There may be a few different details, but the physics is constant. When it comes to addressing …

New Approaches to Dynamic Wheel Force Measurement – Part 2

April 9, 2024 | Filed under: Heavy Haul, Measurement Systems, Wheel/Rail Interaction, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik Part 1 of this article focused on past and present research into wheel condition and behavior monitoring via wayside-based continuous measurement systems. Using an overlapping combination of strain gauges and load cells, such systems can measure a wide range of dynamic wheel forces, and parameters like wheel …

New Approaches to Dynamic Wheel Force Measurement – Part 1

March 29, 2024 | Filed under: Measurement Systems, Vehicle/Track, Wheel/Rail Interaction, WRI Conference

by Jeff Tuzik The mechanics of wheel/rail interaction are in many ways at the core of railroading and the defining characteristic of how a train gets from here to there. Because rail typically represents a railroad’s largest financial asset, track-related issues are often front and center, even when it comes …

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