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The ITCR Base Radio Installation and Field Service Guide provides important radio-frequency safety information, installation procedures, and servicing instructions for Meteorcomm Interoperable Train Control (ITC) Base radio models 63030-24 and 63030-48. These two models are nearly identical in...
A focus group was held at the November 11, 1996 meeting of the Operating Rules Association of North American Railroads to
discuss the general issue of compliance and operating rules. Twelve operating rules officers participated, representing Class I, II,
and III railroads. Individual structured...
In-line hardening of railroad rails to produce a very fine pearlite microstructure has become a commercial reality. A question that this report seeks to answer is whether or not it is possible to find an alloy composition that will permit the development of lower bainite microstructures by in-line...
This report is the second in a series focusing on methods to determine the puncture velocity of railroad tank car shells. In this
context, puncture velocity refers to the impact velocity at which a coupler will completely pierce the shell and puncture the tank.
In the first report in this series...