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Other Reports
Accident/Incident Bulletin No. 151: Calendar Year 1982
Keywords: Accident Reports, Incident Reports, Casualties
Abstract: [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...
Technical Reports
Ballast and Subgrade Requirements Study: Summary and Assessment Report
Keywords: Subballast, Substructure, Design, Performance and Evaluation, Field Tests, Laboratory Tests
Abstract: Earth materials - i.e. soil and rock - form the substructure of all railroad track. In this report a summary and assessment is presented with respect to current and available...
Other Reports
Highway-Rail Crossing Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin: No. 5 Calendar Year 1982
Keywords: Accident Reports, Incident Reports, Casualties
Abstract: The fifth annual report, issued by the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Office of Safety, combines rail-highway crossing accident/incident statistics with the National Rail...
Technical Reports
Parametric Studies on Lateral Stability of Welded Rail Track
Keywords: Track buckling, buckling, welded track
Abstract: Thermal buckling of railroad tracks in the lateral plane is an important problem in the design and maintenance of continuous welded rails (CWR). The severity of the problem is...
Technical Reports
Determination of Residual Stresses in Rails
Keywords: Fatigue, Rail stress
Abstract: A destructive sectioning technique for measuring the complete three-dimensional residual stresses in a rail cross section was developed. The technique was applied to four tangent...