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Railway Track & Structures (RT&S) is an American trade journal for the rail transport industry, focusing on the fields of railroad engineering, communication and maintenance. [1] It was founded in 1905 as Railway Engineering & Maintenance and is published monthly by Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation .
Rail News; Railfan & Railroad ISSN 0163-7266; Railroad Gazette; Railroad Man's Magazine ISSN 0033-8761; Railroad Model Craftsman [7] ISSN 0033-877X; Railroads Illustrated ISSN 1071-8311; Railway Age, ISSN 0079-9505; Railway Track & Structures, ISSN 0033-9016; Tall Timber Short Lines; Trains, ISSN 0041-0934
The committees, whose volunteer members come from the railroad industry, meet on a regular basis and use their expertise to come up with the best methods to maintain a railroad. [2] Structures Timber Structures (Committee 7) Concrete Structures & Foundations (Committee 8) Seismic Design for Railway Structures (Committee 9)
A railway track (CwthE and UIC terminology) or railroad track (NAmE), also known as permanent way (CwthE) [1] or "P Way" (BrE [2] and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
The railway track or permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers or ties embedded in ballast, intended to carry the ordinary trains of a railway. It is described as a permanent way because, in the earlier days of railway construction, contractors often laid a temporary track to ...
Railway engineering is a multi-faceted engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of rail transport systems. It encompasses a wide range of engineering disciplines, including civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering and production engineering.
A track crew in Louisiana adjusting a railroad track using lining bars, in 1939. The most fundamental maintenance of way task is the construction, repair, and replacement of the track and its supporting ballast and grade. In the early days of railroading, this task was almost entirely completed by manual labor.
New York Central Railroad's Empire State Express takes on water from the track pan at Palatine, New York, in 1905. A water trough (British terminology), or track pan (American terminology), is a device to enable a steam locomotive to replenish its water supply while in motion. It consists of a long trough filled with water, lying between the rails.