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Friday, January 16, 2009 |
SEPTEMBER 2009
Advertising closes August 7, 2009
Interview with AREMA president AREMA President
Bob Boileau of BNSF looks back as he nears the end of his term in
office as head of AREMA and does a little forecasting about what he
sees ahead for the association.
Transit m/w Chicago's Metra has some big plans in the offing and
some new capital funds from the State of Illinois to back them up.
We'll talk to Metra folks about their maintenance philosophy and what
they see down the track for the nation's second largest commuter rail
system.
Bridge As Michigan State University grew, traffic soared on a
road with the bucolic name of Farm Lane. Today, two rail bridges that
will span Farm Lane open up the southern entrance to the campus. This
story details these bridges from challenges to aesthetics.
TTCI: Track geometry inspection using an instrumented coal car
Track geometry inspection is always a valuable tool.TTCI instrumented a
coal car in revenue service to provide a wealth of track geometry
information about what's happening as heavy-haul traffic passes over a
given stretch of track.
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