| Download | - View final version: Canadian Pacific Railway’s 100% effective lubrication initiative (PDF, 797 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Sroba, P.1; Search for: Roney, M.1; Search for: Dashko, R.; Search for: Magel, E.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Centre for Surface Transportation Technology
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | AREMA 2001 Annual Conferences, Semptember 9-12, 2001, Chicago, IL |
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| Abstract | North American railroads have for many years
applied lubrication to the wheel/rail interface to
control wheel and rail wear, reduce lateral forces in
curves and produce substantial savings in train
energy (fuel) consumption. The traditional method
of applying lubricant to the rail is through wayside
lubricators. In recent years substantial improvements
in wayside equipment technology has improved
equipment reliability, reduced maintenance
requirements, increased the track miles treated by
each lubricator and minimised lubricant waste.
While wayside systems can provide excellent gauge
face protection to the high rail of curves, results on
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) demonstrate that
current wayside systems are unable to reliably
provide the recommended fiction levels for the top of
the rail. Wayside systems must be supported by other
technologies, such as on-board systems, hi-rail
applicators or innovative wayside systems to provide
effective top of rail friction management. CPR’s
experience in developing and implementing ‘bestpractice
friction management guidelines’ are
provided in this paper. |
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| Publication date | 2001 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NPARC number | 23000276 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | 33ce2674-e521-4a25-b411-2e041445b590 |
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| Record created | 2016-06-30 |
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| Record modified | 2020-06-02 |
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