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Practical Rail Grinding

January 3, 2014 | Filed under: Rail Grinding, Rail Maintenance

by Fred Prahl, Eric Magel & Peter Sroba • April 4, 2005 Rail grinding, first developed as a technique for treating corrugations, has become an essential component of track maintenance for freight railroads and transit properties. During the 1960s, railroads began seeing rail corrugations developing to depths of about 0.080 to …

Optimizing Wheel and Rail Profiles on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor

December 30, 2013 | Filed under: Rail Grinding, Rail Transit, Wheel/Rail Interaction, Wheel/Rail Profile

by Eric E. Magel • September 20, 2004 Wheel wear is an inevitable byproduct of wheel/rail interaction. Excessive wear, however, indicates an imbalance in some aspect of the wheel/rail interface. Amtrak’s high-speed Acela trains, running on track with much greater curvature than other high-speed systems, were quickly found to exhibit very …

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