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A track geometry car (also known as a track recording car) is an automated track inspection vehicle on a rail transport system used to test several parameters of the track geometry without obstructing normal railroad operations. Some of the parameters generally measured include position, curvature, alignment of the track, smoothness, and the ...
Kiamichi Railroad EMD SD40-2s #3378 and #3379 in Hugo, Oklahoma. The Kiamichi Railroad Company (reporting mark KRR) is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Hugo, Oklahoma. KRR operates two lines totaling 231 miles (372 km) which intersect in Hugo, as well as maintaining trackage rights on an additional 45 miles (72 km) of track. [1]
Offered for sale in 2022. 94 General Electric Co. 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) C-C: December 1956 32711 Originally, GE pattern GEX3341 [71] with Alco 6-251B prime mover. Purchased new. Converted to CLEAR 140 by Sygnet Rail Technologies with Cummins QSK45L prime mover in 2010-2011. Offered for sale in 2022. 95 General Electric Co. 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) C-C ...
At this point, Sperry Rail Service Corporation was created to market the testing service. The first commercial test was accomplished in November 1928, on the Wabash Railway over a 130-mile (210 km) section of track between Montpelier, Ohio, and Clarke Junction, Indiana performed by SRS 102. The expansion of service put two more SRS cars into ...
Farmrail Corporation (reporting mark FMRC) has acted since 1981 as a lessee-operator for Oklahoma Department of Transportation, managing an 82-mile east-west former Rock Island line between Weatherford and Erick and an additional 89 miles of former Santa Fe track, Westhorn-Elmer, acquired by the State in 1992 from the ATSF Railway. [1]
These systems rely on an array of video devices in various locations between the rails and either side of the track, looking for particular bogie components (such as brake beam, springs, friction wedges, etc) and this data is then put through image analysis to determine if there are maintenance issues.
The BNSF Avard Subdivision runs 177 miles (285 km) of track between Tulsa, Oklahoma, starting at milepost (MP) 425.2, to Avard, Oklahoma, MP 602, where it meets the BNSF Panhandle Sub. History [ edit ]
Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) is conducting a pilot program testing what the railroad describes as a "breakthrough in track inspection technology."The Eastern U.S. railroad is deploying an ...