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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 ...
The track geometry car typically checks each stretch of track about 6 times a year; the car is manually operated, and there are no plans to automate inspection of the track geometry, which is done manually with the help of high-tech equipment aboard the car. [53]
The car was repurposed in 2020 with a LiDAR Laser Measurement System. #10002 Corridor Clipper, an Amfleet I-based track geometry car. It is periodically attached to the end of a diesel or electric revenue-running train or is hauled by a locomotive only. The car previously had a special pantograph that was used to test and measure overhead lines.
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 ...
Track geometry car: MERMEC: Roger 600 2023 [78] 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
Safety car or pace car, a car which limits the speed of competing vehicles on a racetrack during caution period or parade lap Track day car , a road car designed solely or principally for track days Track geometry car or track recording car, an automated railway inspection vehicle
The Federal Railroad Administration purchased a single SPV-2000 in 1981 and converted it into a track geometry car which it designated T-10. The T-10 remained in service with the FRA until 2000 when it was replaced by newer equipment. [10] It was then sold to Caltrain. [11]
This inspection car has rear-facing seats and a large glass window at the end that allows passengers to observe the tracks. [29] American View is used by maintenance crews to visually inspect the tracks for defects and by the Amtrak president and other executives for official purposes. Number 2300 was rebuilt into a track-geometry car in ...