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Spring 2018
For railway track geometry to meet regulatory requirements under normal operating conditions, railway ballast must provide sufficient lateral resistance to control track deformations. This implies that on tangent tracks the lateral resistance of the ballast must be sufficient to resist thermal...
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Fall 2016
In 2011, Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway decided to replace the visual No.1 Air Brake test with a new Automated Train Brake Effectiveness (ATBE) for condition monitoring of rail cars through both physical inspection and measurements by fixed track-side Wheel Temperature Detectors (WTD). To make the...