The 10 papers in this report deal with the following areas: rationale and technology used by Amtrak to select concrete ties for use in northeast corridor; geotechnical evaluation of track structure; constitutive modeling of materials in track support structures; innovations in track structures on Long Island Rail Road - rational, design criteria, and performance; development of railroad track degradation models; rehabilitation of Amtrak Baltimore and Potomac railroad tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland; cost/benefit evaluation of electrification of a U.S. rail network; comparative catenary costs--European and U.S. main line railroad electrification, financing railway electrification; and, electric locomotives for the 1980s.
Track Design and Railroad Electirfication
1983
65 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Track design and railroad electrification
TIBKAT | 1983
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