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	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (BandO) is one of the oldest railroads in the United States, with an original line from the port of Baltimore, Maryland west to the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia and Parkersburg, West Virginia.
		The BandO chartered the Philadelphia Branch in Maryland and the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad in Delaware and Pennsylvania and built a parallel route, finished in 1886.
		The corners of this map are Baltimore in the southeast, Albany in the northeast, Chicago in the northwest, and St. Louis in the southwest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad (899 words)

	UIUC Railroad Engineering Program
		The UIUC Railroad Engineering Program recognizes the ever more important role of rail transportation, whether it be freight, passenger or urban transit.
		The UIUC College of Engineering is among the largest and highest ranked in the nation with 13 departments and over 500 faculty members.
		The railroad and railway supply industries can help ensure that UIUC continues to educate a new generation of railroad engineering and transportation professionals by supporting the continued development of its railroad educational and research programs.
	cee.uiuc.edu /research/railroad/CEE/overview.asp (1104 words)

	History of the Tanana Valley Railroad
		The Tanana Valley Railroad (TVRR), a 3 foot narrow-gauge operation, extended from Chena, a settlement on the Tanana River, to Fairbanks, with a branch to Chatanika.
		In 1907, the railroad was refinanced under a new name, the Tanana Valley Railroad and on May 15, 1907, construction began on the second phase of the TVRR, an extension of the trackage to Chatanika.
		Engine #1, the very first engine purchased for the TVRR, was placed on display in Fairbanks and eventually ended up at Alaskaland, now known as Pioneer Park.
	www.fairnet.org /agencies/tvrr/history.html (1284 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It is not the training in railroad curves or in any such special lines that makes the successful railroad man; it is the all-around training such as the Institute offers and of which the purely railroad instruktion, to be sure, consti- tutes a part, and it may reasonably be claimed an important part.
		In fact a considerable portion of the work given under the name of railroad engineering in the third year is more properly de- nominated Location, and is useful, or rather necessary, for running in pipe lines, conduits, sewers, streets and roads and for various purposes.
		In the department, this feature of railroad engineering has proved definitely attractive to the teach- ing force, and every year some project for separation of grades is selected for Thesis.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_029/TECH_V029_S0259_P004.txt (1510 words)

	Consulting the consultants - Railway Track & Structures - August 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		As for trends, HDR is finding that railroads are more often using the design-build approach, where engineering firms and contractors team up to do both the design and the construction as a type of turn-key operation, to perform capital projects.
		TRAX Engineering and Associates is involved in three areas of engineering consulting for the railroads: capacity analysis for larger Class 1 railroads and Amtrak, using operations simulations to maximize capital funding; maintenance planning for shortline and regional railroads; and industrial development for midsize industrial rail users who are expanding or modifying their facilities.
		The railroads want TRAX to provide them with technical assistance so their people can stay focused on day-to-day operations and to help with their internal manpower requirements to prevent overload or fluctuations in staffing levels.
	www.rtands.com /aug00/consultants.html (2054 words)

	UIUC Railroad Engineering Program
		Beginnning with Talbot's fundamental work on railroad track design, and Schmidt and Tuthill's work on train energy and power requirements, through Hay's textbook on railroad engineering, The U of I has a distinguished record of accomplishment and remains highly respected by today's railroad engineering community.
		As we enter the next century, the tradition of excellence in railroad engineering continues at the U of I. Nearly two dozen researchers are investigating a wide range of questions and applying cutting edge technology to help North American railroads develop solutions to meet the challenges of more efficient, reliable, faster, and profitable operations.
		Railroads, and the engineering firms that supply the industry, need talented young engineers to develop and implement the advanced technology that railroads will need in the 21st century.
	sftp.cee.uiuc.edu /research/railroad (202 words)

	Octave Chanute in the Aviation History Encyclopedia
		He designed and built railroad bridges to cross the Mississippi River at Kansas City (began 1867, opened 1869), the Illinois River at Peoria, and the Genesee River Gorge near Portageville, NY Chanute invented a system for pressure treating rail ties and telephone poles with creosote to preserve them.
		He also introduced the railroad date nail into the United States - a simple and efficient way of recording the age of railroad ties and other wooden structures by date stamping the heads of nails.
		He published this as a series of articles first published in the The Railroad and Engineering Journal from 1891 to 1893, and collected together in Progress in Flying Machine in 1894.
	www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/Octave_Chanute.html (668 words)

	- Crouch Engineering
		Estimates and projections are accepted as fact, and Crouch is on the short list of engineering consultants recommended by Departments of Transportation in most of the 23 states where we are licensed.
		Crouch Engineering provides civil and railroad engineering consulting services to private railroads and federal, state and local government agencies.
		Crouch Engineering is an acknowledged leader in the business of providing design, planning, surveying, layout, rehabilitation, and construction management of railroad tracks, bridges and related structures.
	www.crouchengineering.com (397 words)

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		Lautala continued: “Railroad engineering was a common course and theme in virtually all civil engineering curriculum in the early 20th Century, but today most rail-related education has disappeared from universities and specialized railroad courses are rare.
		Working for Class 1 railroads is not for everyone and we want to be careful of encouraging students to take positions that won’t meet their expectations.
		Most young engineers in engineering consulting companies are university graduates, which further increases the importance of universities as an active participant in the railroad education.
	www.rtands.com /A/feature2.html (1925 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad
		Most railroad historians concentrate on the business and human aspects of the industry, and rather uncritically mention engineering and other technical factors as if they were simple and well-known, which they most definitely are not.
		The engine bell was the signal "for passengers to take their seats." The conductor would ask that it be rung by two tugs on the communicating cord, then one tug would signal the engineman to start the train.
		The final remarkable contribution of the Pennsylvania to railroad technology was the cab signal, a representation in the engineman's cab of the state of the block in which he was moving.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/railway/prr/prrsig.htm (19048 words)

	Railroad Engineering and Safety Unit Tasks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Project Planning and Development shall provide the Railroad Engineering and Safety Unit (RRSE) with a plan showing the grade crossing for any project that has a grade crossing within the project limits or within 1000 feet of the project limits. This plan shall be provided during the development of initial schemes.
		A Pre-Diagnostic Team Meeting may be assembled with the railroad operator, designer, and relevant DOT units as warranted by the project specifics.
		The DTM is held on site with the railroad operator, local officials, engineer, school and emergency services, designer and relevant DOT units to discuss the grade crossing, gather expert testimony, and develop recommendations for modifications to the grade crossing.
	www.state.nj.us /transportation/eng/documents/procedures/rseTasks.shtm (345 words)

	FHWA - FAPG 23 CFR 646B, Railroad-Highway Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		All crossings of railroads and highways at grade shall be eliminated where there is full control of access on the highway (a freeway) regardless of the volume of railroad or highway traffic.
		Preliminary engineering and right-of-way acquisition costs which are otherwise eligible, but incurred by a railroad prior to authorization by FHWA, although not reimbursable, may be included as part of the railroad share of project cost where such a share is required.
		The railroad must demonstrate that this is its normal practice to address these special conditions in the manner proposed.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /legsregs/directives/fapg/cfr0646b.htm (4251 words)

	The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: Incubator of Engineering Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was born out of the desire of Baltimore businessmen to compete for western trade with New York after the Erie Canal opened trade to the new Midwestern states.
		Since its inception as one of the first railroads in the world, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was a great incubator of engineering entrepreneurs, particularly in its first seventy-five years.
		Being the first large scale railroad to begin building in the western hemisphere, the BandO needed innovation and invention in order to succeed in its goal of bringing goods and passengers from the great waterways of the Midwest to the port of Baltimore.
	www.pubs.asce.org /WWWdisplay.cgi?0412072 (230 words)

	THE CAROLINA, CLINCHFIELD AND OHIO RAILWAY, ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT COLLECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Provenance: The records of the Engineering Department of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway were given to the Archives of Appalachia by Mrs.
		The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway was envisioned in the early nineteenth century as a transportation and commercial route from the Ohio Valley to Charleston, South Carolina, but the Appalachian mountain barrier made its completion a formidable task.
		Included is the history of the railroad and construction details of the Spartanburg tunnel.
	cass.etsu.edu /ARCHIVES/afindaid/a47.html (759 words)

	Official Railroad - Construction and MoW
		Railroad facilities design is one of many functions provided by this full service Engineering Firm.
		Rummel Klepper and Kahl Consulting Engineers: In the top 500 ENR consulting firms specializing in transportation and railroad engineering.
		Stone Consulting and Design: Railroad designers and consultants, feasibility studies and grant development of heritage trolleys and tourist railroads, railroad and equipment appraisals.
	www.cwrr.com /nmra/rrconst.html (1119 words)

	Lewis and Clark Railroad - Transportation & Engineering - Public Works - Clark County Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Lewis and Clark Railroad is a 33-mile short line railroad located in Clark County, Washington.
		The line is owned by Clark County and is also known as the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad or the Clark County Railroad.
		On the line north of Battle Ground, the Battle Ground, Yacolt, and Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Association (which is a volunteer group) is operating a passenger excursion program originating in Yacolt.
	www.co.clark.wa.us /public-works/transportation/railroad.html (261 words)

	Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, PA - Bessemer and Lake Erie RR over Allegheny River 1918 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad (B&LE) is among several routes built to connect Pittsburgh with the ore docks.
		As soon as 1900, Railroad Gazette was reporting on the railroad's growing pains, noting that its piecemeal route was not "well calculated to handle a heavy traffic with economy." [4] One major bottleneck was the Allegheny River Bridge, a 3,538'2"-long, single-track structure that included 1,737'-0" of trestle approach on the north end.
		Engineering News-Record called the design "strikingly original" and a "sharp departure from prevailing practice," because it broke a lull in cantilever construction during the early twentieth century.
	pghbridges.com /articles/haer/blerr_PA508/blerr_HAER508.htm (1435 words)

	Amazon.com: Railroad Engineering (Railroad Engineering): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A revision of the classic text on railroad engineering, considered the ``bible'' of the field for three decades.
		Presents railroad engineering principles quantitatively but without excessive resort to mathematics, and applies these principles to day-by-day design, construction, operation, and maintenance.
		RAILROAD ENGINEERING is somewhat pricey for a simple update of a book originally published in the early 1950's.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471364002?v=glance (631 words)

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		In 1967 planned and built a Laboratory for Engineering Mechanics in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at New York University and was appointed its Director.
		In the spring of 1973, when plans were made to merge the New York University School of Engineering and Science with the Polytechnic Institute, decided not to join the merged school and accepted an invitation to come to Princeton University as a Visiting Professor.
		In 1980, was co-founder of the Institute for Railroad Engineering in Wilmington, Del.
	www.ce.udel.edu /faculty/kerr/kerrCV.html (3789 words)

	Landmarks on the Iron Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Middleton, a civil engineer and railroad historian, combines his interest in these two fields to provide a fascinating look at the engineering wonders of North American railroading.
		American civil engineers were unsurpassed in their ability to build railroads over great distances and across high mountain passes, to erect great bridges, and to bore tunnels of prodigious length.
		Most American engineers learned their trade at West Point or at technical schools and institutes in Europe and the United States, but some were self-taught.
	www.indiana.edu /~iupress/books/0-253-33559-0.shtml (393 words)

	Masters Series, Category 6, Model Railroad Engineering - Electrical
		This is an old standby written before the semi-conductor was in common use on model railroads.
		The other book: Basic Electricity and Electronics for Model Railroaders by Don Fiehmann is an up-to-date treatise on model railroad wiring and circuitry, but it spends less time on basics.
		On his railroad, the Palouse & Pacific, he has all the requirements in part A, seven of the 11 items in B; and 10 of the 21 in part C. Getting the Electrical certificate was not a problem.
	www.nmra.org /achievement/ms-ee.html (1738 words)

	Company Information - Crouch Engineering
		In Tennessee, where he is the engineering consultant of choice for nearly if not all the short lines in the state, his reputation is such that both the state Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration accept his findings without independent back-up or auditing.
		Likewise, in Pennsylvania and Michigan their estimates and projections are accepted as fact, and they are on the short list of engineering consultants recommended by the Department of Transportation in each state.
		We have utilized Crouch Engineering's services in a variety of situations, ranging from due diligence on a potential acquisition to emergency repairs and capital improvements.
	www.crouchengineering.com /info/testimonials.php (832 words)

	Utilities & Railroad Engineering ~ About Us
		The Utility and Railroad Engineering Section consists of 16 Team Members.
		The team members serve in one of four discreet subsections which are responsible for utility/railroad coordination (statewide); utility/railroad coordination (regional freeway program); administering the Federal railroad/highway crossing improvement program; utility company invoicing/accounting and administrative/technical support.
		In addition, Utility and Railroad Engineering Section will administer the Federal railroad/highway crossing improvement program in order to increase safety of public railroad crossings in Arizona.
	www.dot.state.az.us /Highways/utilities/about.asp (181 words)

	TTI:Explore Centers & Clearinghouses:RRC/AAR Lab:Newsletters:vol.6 no.2
		The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has had a long and distinguished history in railroad engineering and is committed to its role in both research and teaching in the 21st century.
		Barkan’s research focuses on railroad safety and risk analysis and he and a student of his recently developed a quantitative method to predict the occurrence of broken rails.
		Thus, the goal is to vary the stiffness of the MR damper by a neuro-fuzzy controller and thereby damp the vertical vibrations of a railroad car.
	tti.tamu.edu /inside/centers/rail/newsletters/v6n2.stm (2710 words)

	Trains and Railfanning, Plumas County Northern California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Magnificent bridges and tunnels, a unique railroad "Y" and a section of track that crosses over itself in a one-mile loop in order to gain elevation are among the features that attract train buffs to the area.
		The world-renowned Portola Railroad Museum is a must-see attraction for anyone interested in trains or railroads.
		The last spike of the Western Pacific Railroad was driven into a trestle at Keddie in 1909, becoming the last transcontinental railroad to be built across the Sierra, connecting California to the rest of the nation.
	www.plumascounty.org /Attractions/Trains.htm (169 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Pennsylvania railroad engineering marvel celebrates 150th anniversary
		This year, railroad enthusiasts will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Horseshoe Curve, a simple yet groundbreaking piece of engineering just west of Altoona that turned the Pennsylvania Railroad into a national player and forever changed the way railroads did business.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad was created in the 1840s to bypass the Main Line, but when it ran out of money in 1848 the owners were content to pay tolls to cross the mountains via the Allegheny Portage Railroad.
		In 1879, the railroad created the first park to be built exclusively to allow people to watch trains, Cupper said.
	signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040630-0220-horseshoecurve150th.html (705 words)

	Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Transcontinental Railroad
		The idea for a transcontinental railroad "to shrink the continent and change the whole world" was first proposed by men of imagination in 1830.
		In 1864 thousands of Chinese in Kwantung Province were recruited by Central Pacific Railroad Co. to work on the western portion of transcontinental railroad.
		The roadbed was blasted out of the solid rock mountainside in the fall of 1865 by lowering Chinese workers (also known as "Celestials" after the "Celestial Kingdom" as these tireless workers referred to their homeland) on ropes down the sheer cliff face.
	cprr.org (1178 words)

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