WIDE-GAUGE RESEARCH LEADS TO A NEW STANDARD ON UP

Following research on the causes of wide gauge, Union Pacific has adopted as standard a 16-inch tie plate with a 1:30 cant. Gauge widening is a problem common on high-speed,heavy-duty mainline track and this phenomenon was investigated on UP as part of the industry's Track Train Dynamics Research Program. Tie-plate cant varied from standard 1:40 down to 1:14. The 1:30 design finally chosen is to reduce the incidence of rail rollover and to reduce overloading on the gauge side so that the wear pattern was down the center of the rail.

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  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  508 Birch Street
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Publication Date: 1976-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 5 p.
• Serial:
  • Railway Track and Structures
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-9016

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Measuring instruments; Rail gauge; Tie plates; Track components
• Identifier Terms: Union Pacific Railroad
• Old TRIS Terms: Track gauge
• Subject Areas: Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00132206
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 5 1976 12:00AM