Trackwork

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Fri Oct 6 22:14:39 EDT 2006




>>

>>Many years ago one of the rail magazines had a photograph of some of the

>>testing done for rail buckling. The shot was taken as extreemely

>>high voltage was

>>applied to the rails, the track buckled violently and the ballast was flying

>>all over the place. It was a very dramatic shot. If I happen across the photo

>>again as I purge my magazines I will post the issue it was in.


In the 1970s the AAR conducted tests at Southern's DeButts Yard in
Chattanooga. The rail was heated by current generated by a
diesel-electric locomotive.

Dick Fisher





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