VIBRATOR ASSURES LENGTH ADJUSTMENTS IN LONG RAILS

Machine developed by Union Pacific is designed to vibrate rail strings while they are being laid to facilitate changes in length in response to being heated or cooled. The vibrator is a track-mounted machine which has two rail vibrators, one for each rail, which are independent of each other. In each case the vibration is created by an eccentrically counterbalanced shaft in a hydraulic motor.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  P.O. Box 350
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Publication Date: 1971-6

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 26-27
• Serial:
  • Railway Track and Structures
  • Volume: 67
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-9016

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Maintenance of way; Vibration devices; Welded rail
• Old TRIS Terms: Track maintenance equipment; Vibrators
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00050375
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 24 1976 12:00AM