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Other Reports
PTC Annual Report for 2015: Conrail Shared Assets Organization
Abstract: Conrail Shared Assets has completed the installation and in-service of the PTC field equipment. All WIUs are currently reporting signal status to the WSRS. The WSRS is in service...
Other Reports
PTC Annual Report for 2015: North County Transit District
Abstract: GENERAL Monthly stakeholder and interoperability meetings were held in 2015 as were quarterly CalTrans meetings. NCTD attended LA Regional meetings in 2015 until they were...
Technical Reports
Quantification of the Effectiveness of Low Solar Absorptivity Coatings for Reducing Rail Temperature
Keywords: Track buckling; sun kink; rail neutral temperature; low solar absorption coating; thermal reflective coating
Abstract: Due to the thermal expansion properties of steel, the risk that a track will buckle increases as the temperature of the rails increase. Therefore, it is desirable to keep rail...