FOR THE BIG CARS, WHAT KIND OF TRACK?

Considerations on the service life of rails over which increasingly heavy cars travel and on the prospects for improving steel used for rails. It would seem that the advantages of using very heavy cars are cancelled out by the cost of replacing rails when the weight of cars moved over them exceeds 100 tons.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  508 Birch Street
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Authors:
  • Welty, G
• Publication Date: 1977-3-14

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 24-26
• Serial:
  • Railway Age
  • Volume: 178
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-8826
  • Serial URL: http://www.railwayage.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Axle load force; High capacity cars; Metallurgy; Rail steel; Railroad rails; Railroad tracks; Service life; Wear; Wheel loads
• Old TRIS Terms: Axle loadings; Track structures
• Subject Areas: Design; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00157519
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Union of Railways
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 4 1977 12:00AM