{"title":"Track-worthiness Testing Of Span-bolster Cars","authors":"P.E. Klausur, J. Mcmunn","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1992.665126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1992.665126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183652,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE Spring Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128788637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TecsPak Hydraulic Buffer For Reducing The Acceleration Of Car Impacting","authors":"D. G. Anderson, H. Braam","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1992.665129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1992.665129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183652,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE Spring Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"87 22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126301172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrification Of The New Peck Drawbridge And Bridgeport Viaduct - New Haven rail Line Bridgeport, Connecticut","authors":"S.R. Gilbert","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1992.665136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1992.665136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183652,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE Spring Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131868250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progress Report - Slackless Drawbar Testing","authors":"V. T. Hawthorne, A. R. Hiatt","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1992.665128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1992.665128","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183652,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE Spring Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131264473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use Of Voltage Controlled Thyristor Converters in Power Supply For DC Traction Systems","authors":"B. Liljeqvist","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1992.665134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1992.665134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183652,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE Spring Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132752208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling Railway Block Signalling Systems Using Discrete-event Simulation","authors":"R. Hill, T.K. Yates","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1992.665120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1992.665120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183652,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE Spring Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123548123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect Of Injection Timing, Enhanced Aftercooling, And Low Sulfur-low Aromatic Diesel Fuel On Locomotive Exhaust Emissions","authors":"V. O. Markworth, S. Fritz, R. Cataldi","doi":"10.1109/RRCON.1992.665127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RRCON.1992.665127","url":null,"abstract":"An experimental study was performed to demonstrate the fuel economy and exhaust emissions implications of retarding fuel injection timing, enhancing charge air aftercooling, and using low-sulfur, low-aromatic diesel fuel for locomotive engines. Steady-state gaseous and particulate emission data are presented from two 12-cylinder diesel locomotive engines. The two laboratory engines, an EMD 645E3B and a GE 7FDL, are each rated at 1860 kW (2500 hp) and represent the majority of the locomotive fleet in North America. Each engine was tested for total hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NO[sub x]), and particulate. Emissions were measured at three steady-state operating conditions: rated speed and load, idle, and an intermediate speed and load. Test results on the EMD engine indicate that a 4 deg injection timing retard, along with a low-sulfur, low-aromatic fuel and enhanced aftercooling, was effective in reducing NO[sub x] from 10.5 g/hp-h to 7.2 g/hp-h; however, particulates increased from 0.15 g/hp-h to 0.19 g/hp-h, and fuel efficiency was 4.3 percent worse. Similar observations were made with the GE engine. This paper gives details on the test engines, the measurement procedures, and the emission results.","PeriodicalId":183652,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ASME/IEEE Spring Joint Railroad Conference","volume":"14 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123589543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}