Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Fairmont merged with Harsco Corporation in 1979 to become part of Harsco Track Technologies (Harsco Rail in 2009). [1] Fairmont products included: internal combustion engines such as the PHB and QB [3] models; maintenance of way vehicles such as speeders, small derrick cars, small shipping vehicles such as combination platform cars, etc.
Sperry Rail Service Vehicle. Dr. Elmer Sperry began developing a method of locating internal rail defects in 1911. To build a railway test car, he contracted the American Railway Association in 1927. Construction on this first car began in June 1927. The body was metal-faced plywood, and was mounted on a Kalamazoo motor car bed. This car was ...
Two-car rail welding unit W301–W302 Maxson Corp 1981 In service: R57 Self-propelled crane car R58 Flat cars (for refuse) RF01–RF27 Fuji Heavy Industries 1983 In service: R59 Track geometry car TGC1 Plasser: 1984 In service: R60: Track gang car: Never purchased: R61 Self-propelled crane cars C211, C216 Fuji Heavy Industries 1983 Retired R62 ...
This can be thought of as the plan view which is a view of a 3-dimensional track from the position above the track. In track geometry, the horizontal layout involves the layout of three main track types: tangent track (straight line), curved track, and track transition curve (also called transition spiral or spiral) which connects between a ...
Harsco rail equipment seen in Bradford, Ontario, May 2015. Harsco was founded in 1853 as The Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Company and became the Harrisburg Steel Corporation in 1935. Following a series of acquisitions, the company became Harsco Corporation in 1956, forming three divisions: Metals & Minerals (Now Harsco Environmental), Rail, and ...
Track geometry car: MERMEC: Roger 600 2023 [79] Plasser American: Ballast and switch tamper Nordco [c] Ballast Regulator Shuttlewagon SWX Series Railcar mover Shuttlewagon Road–rail vehicle: Brandt Maintenance Vehicle c. 2011 –present Self Powered Flat Cars #5066, 5067, 5068. Relco Locomotives Work Train 2019–2023
Track geometry is three-dimensional geometry of track layouts and associated measurements used in design, construction and maintenance of railroad tracks.The subject is used in the context of standard, speed limits and other regulations in the areas of track gauge, alignment, elevation, curvature and track surface.