" A T INTERVALS not longer t han 3 years the Board shall make an estimate of the liabilities created by this Act and the Railroad Retirement Act of 1 9 3 5 and shall include such estimate in its annual report ."1 In accordance with this s tatutory mandate , the Railroad Retirement Board has issued the second actuarial valuation, along with its recommendations and a s ta tement of the Actuarial ...

Indian Rail transport is one of the major mode of transportation, so it must offer high comfort level for the passengers and the staff. However, the comfort that passengers experience is a highly complex and individual phenomenon. The improvement of passenger comfort while travelling has been the subject of intense interest for many train manufacturers, researchers and companies around the worl...

Between 1900 and 2000, the length of paved roads in the United States increased from 240 km to 6,400,000 km (Peat 2002, BTS 2002) with virtually 100% of the U.S. population having almost immediate access to paved roadways. Similarly, in 1830 there were 37 km of railroad in the United States, but by 1920 total track mileage had increased more than ten-thousand times to 416,000 km miles, however ...

Just as Diemer reveals the importance of one man to Underground Railroad, Alicestyne Turley’s The Gospel Freedom: Black Evangelicals and Railroad (University Press Kentucky) how state, Kentucky, was an integral if overlooked part African Americans’ quest for emancipation in long-nineteenth century. Reviewer Richard Newman believes most important contribution is her contention that religious lea...

The magnetoacoustic measurement technique has been used successfully for residual stress measurements in laboratory samples[1-4]. However, when used to field test samples with complex geometries, such as railroad wheels, the sensitivity of the method declines dramatically[5,6]. It has been suggested that the decrease in performance may be due, in part, to an insufficient or nonuniform magnetic ...

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Within the North American freight railroad industry, there is currently an effort to enable more intelligent telemetry for freight trains. By enabling greater visibility of their rolling stock, including locomotives and railroad cars, railroad companies hope to improve their asset utilization, operational safety, and business profitability. Different communication and sensing technologies are b...

The Association of American Railroads wished to determine the effect of a maintenance practice known as grinding on the occurrence of rail fatigue defects and on the subsequent total traffic usage before a track must be replaced. Because a designed experiment was not practical, an analysis of historical data from the Canadian Northern Railroad is presented. In the analysis, certain covariate da...

ing to this estimate the railroad retirement system might have a relatively small amount to transfer to the old-age and survivors insurance system, but the amount is far more than offset by the employer and employee contributions with respect to the short-service employees that the railroad retirement system, in effect, collects and retains. No benefits other than the residual death payment, wh...

Greater than half of all the fatal injuries on United States railroads are sustained by trespassers. The paper provides a statistical analysis of the demographics of trespassers, the activities they were engaged in, and the causes of injury. It also analyzes trends over time. The paper finds that the risks of injury and death are particularly acute for males in their 20s and 30s. The annual cas...