Ventura County Railway has installed equipment which detects defective wheels on moving trains; broken flanges, loose wheels and broken treads detected as wheels pass over "Wheel Checkers"; broken flange detector consists of spring fingers placed at right angles to rail with insulated stainless steel pad near end of each finger; broken tread detector consists of detector rail placed slightly below top of other rails.
Defective-wheel detector
Ry Signaling Communications
Railway Engineering and Maintenance ; 45 , n 2
1952
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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