Wheel and rail profile optimisation is a critical research area aimed at enhancing railway vehicle performance, reducing wear, and ensuring safety. This multidisciplinary field integrates advanced ...

RAILWAY AGE, JUNE 2023 ISSUE: Welcome to “Timeout for Tech with Gary T. Fry, Ph.D., P.E.” Each month, we examine a technology topic about which professionals in the railway industry have asked to ...

BART officials announced Wednesday that a new train wheel design they hope will cut noise by half has passed a battery of performance tests at its Hayward test track and will be introduced into ...

On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to keep everything in ...

MxV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2022 ISSUE: MxV Rail (formerly TTCI) conducted a series of full-scale wheel/rail (W/R) rolling contact tests using its Rolling Contact Fatigue Simulator (RCFS) to ...