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A spreader is a type of maintenance equipment designed to spread or shape ballast profiles. The spreader spreads gravel along the railroad ties. The various ploughs, wings and blades of specific spreaders allow them to remove snow, build banks, clean and dig ditches, evenly distribute gravel, as well as trim embankments of brush along the side of the track.
The following is a list of unions and brotherhoods playing a significant role in the railroad industry of the United States of America.Many of these entities changed names and merged over the years; this list is based upon the names current during the height of American railway unionism in the first decades of the 20th century.
A ballast regulator (also known as a ballast spreader or ballast sweeper) is a piece of railway maintenance equipment used to shape and distribute the gravel track ballast that supports the ties in rail tracks.
The first NRC Conference took place in 1973 and has been held annually without interruption ever since. The NRC hosts an annual railroad construction and maintenance equipment auction each spring. In the auction, NRC member companies buy and sell rail construction and maintenance equipment from each other and from railroads that participate.
The AAR is headquartered in Washington, D.C., not far from the Capitol.Its information technology subsidiary, Railinc, is based in Cary, North Carolina.Railinc IT systems and information services, including the Umler system, the Interline Settlement System and Embargoes system are an integral part of the North American rail infrastructure.
An earlier organization called the Train Dispatchers Association of America preceded the establishment of the ATDA by 27 years. [3] During the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 , the Train Dispatchers did not participate but neither would they perform work of other unions.
First begun as a pilot program with the 2001 ARM-TRAIN conference hosted by the North Carolina Transportation Museum, a second joint conference was held in 2006 hosted by the California State Railroad Museum, beginning in 2011 all Spring and Fall meetings scheduled for the future were held jointly.
In order to provide a common understanding and reduce potential confusion, the UIC has established standard international railway terminology and a trilingual (English-French-German) thesaurus of terms. The thesaurus was the result of cooperation with the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT/ CEMT) and was published in 1995. [31]