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Splashing rail joints - the best edition of Serbian Railways: ) [] - dulevoz
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Date: 2022-05-17
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Shazen_de
Captain here. When trains drive over tiny bumps such as joints or junction frogs, it creates vibrations which go through the ballast and penetrate the planum under it. Over time it creates potholes, which collect rainwater. Since the water can't evaporate it stays there and continuesly softens the planum. In winter the water freezes and bust the planum, this creates an even bigger pothole in which even more water collects and this circle goes on and on. After every rain the water softens the planum around the pothole, causing ballast to sink in, which creates holes between the ballast and sleepers. When a train runs over it, it pushes the -flying- sleepers against the ballast, which gets pushed even more into the wet planum which in response gets pushed through the ballast to the top.
When this happens, railroads like to fix this temporary by -stuffing- the holes between the ballast and sleepers, fixing the symptoms instead of the cause. This needs to be done after every rain until the cause gets fixed, which is very expensive and would cause the line to close for at least two months. This can be seen on all lines which lay in a biome with changing seasons. Newer railroad lines don't have this problem anymore, since the new procedure is to create planum out of asphalt instead of the old gravel-sand-mix.
The pack of wet dirt you see between the sleepers is the planum which got pushed to the top.
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Captain here. When trains drive over tiny bumps such as joints or junction frogs, it creates vibrations which go through the ballast and penetrate the planum under it. Over time it creates potholes, which collect rainwater. Since the water can't evaporate it stays there and continuesly softens the planum. In winter the water freezes and bust the planum, this creates an even bigger pothole in which even more water collects and this circle goes on and on. After every rain the water softens the planum around the pothole, causing ballast to sink in, which creates holes between the ballast and sleepers. When a train runs over it, it pushes the -flying- sleepers against the ballast, which gets pushed even more into the wet planum which in response gets pushed through the ballast to the top.
When this happens, railroads like to fix this temporary by -stuffing- the holes between the ballast and sleepers, fixing the symptoms instead of the cause. This needs to be done after every rain until the cause gets fixed, which is very expensive and would cause the line to close for at least two months. This can be seen on all lines which lay in a biome with changing seasons. Newer railroad lines don't have this problem anymore, since the new procedure is to create planum out of asphalt instead of the old gravel-sand-mix.
The pack of wet dirt you see between the sleepers is the planum which got pushed to the top.
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E. C.
On well run railway lines there are track walkers to check for bad spots, they report them to get fixed. When the repair guys then come around they lift the tracks, fill missing gravel and compress it with a vibrator to be strong again. Then tighten up all those nuts and bolts and off you go on a well maintained track. Welding the rails together (thermite welding) provides a better connection without the -clunk clunk- going over the gap. Yeah, call me Captain Obvious, but this is the only way to keep a reasonable track quality without rebuilding completely or letting things go down south.
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On well run railway lines there are track walkers to check for bad spots, they report them to get fixed. When the repair guys then come around they lift the tracks, fill missing gravel and compress it with a vibrator to be strong again. Then tighten up all those nuts and bolts and off you go on a well maintained track. Welding the rails together (thermite welding) provides a better connection without the -clunk clunk- going over the gap. Yeah, call me Captain Obvious, but this is the only way to keep a reasonable track quality without rebuilding completely or letting things go down south.
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Bob
This is a formula for a derailment, and if the cars that topple contain something toxic, the cost to remedy it would be more than basic maintenance. As the price of fossil fuel goes up, electrically-powered trains will become more important.
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This is a formula for a derailment, and if the cars that topple contain something toxic, the cost to remedy it would be more than basic maintenance. As the price of fossil fuel goes up, electrically-powered trains will become more important.
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Bruno
At least your tiny great country DO has railroads everywhere. What about this giant un governable elephant called Brazil. There's no long distance passenger trains whatsoever here. Yup. That's right. Disgusted. Sigh.
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At least your tiny great country DO has railroads everywhere. What about this giant un governable elephant called Brazil. There's no long distance passenger trains whatsoever here. Yup. That's right. Disgusted. Sigh.
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Stevan
Prikazi malo moderne lepe pruge kao ono rakovica resnik a ne samo ovo ruglo kao zadnji retard pljvac od fomera bre samo pljujete sebe i svoje jadnici!
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Prikazi malo moderne lepe pruge kao ono rakovica resnik a ne samo ovo ruglo kao zadnji retard pljvac od fomera bre samo pljujete sebe i svoje jadnici!
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RustyGreens
I work for the Long Island Railroad and we have sections that do the same thing. LIRR is the busiest commuter rail in America.
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I work for the Long Island Railroad and we have sections that do the same thing. LIRR is the busiest commuter rail in America.
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John
This railroad could use some very good PMS that is for sure. Thanks for showing how the rails looked(Mississippi gulf coast, USA)
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This railroad could use some very good PMS that is for sure. Thanks for showing how the rails looked(Mississippi gulf coast, USA)
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John
Surely the maintenance of way department could deal with this. The situation will only get worse and a calamity may take place!
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Surely the maintenance of way department could deal with this. The situation will only get worse and a calamity may take place!
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Amar
Why are serbian railways still using single axle freight cars? They will just deteriorate the track more due to pointed loads.
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Why are serbian railways still using single axle freight cars? They will just deteriorate the track more due to pointed loads.
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Mark
I would be SH! T scared to be that close to rails in that condition. I would expect at least one train to go on the ground.
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I would be SH! T scared to be that close to rails in that condition. I would expect at least one train to go on the ground.
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