The Ohio Rail Development Commission grant will cover about half the cost of a railroad replacement project in Stark County.

In summary, welded rail provides a continuous and smooth rail head that allows wheels to cross rail joints without impacts. Impact-free rail joints minimize the stresses imposed on the rails and ...

Continuously welded rail — track welded together to form one uninterrupted rail that is 1/4 mile long— is another advancement that has improved safety by minimizing the number of joints in the ...

Today, you see all sorts of methods that join two rails chemically to create a continuously welded rail—methods like flash-butt welding, gas-pressure welding, enclosed-arc welding and the one in ...

In rail engineering, Plasser South Africa’s Linda Ndlovu tells Engineering News, the joint where the ends of two rails are connected to each other, by means of fish plates, causes dynamic impact ...

“Thanks to the installation of continuously welded rail – quarter-mile strands of rail without joints – the traditional clickety-clack of steel wheels on jointed-rail will be replaced by ...

CWR rails are welded together to form one continuous rail that may be several miles long, but CWR is currently defined by FRA as rail that has been welded together into lengths longer than 400 feet.