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Federal Railroad Administration

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) promotes safe and environmentally sound rail transportation. The FRA conducts research and development tests to evaluate projects in support of its safety mission and to enhance the railroad system as a national transportation resource. Public education campaigns on highway-rail grade crossing safety and the danger of trespassing on rail property are also administered by FRA. Bookmark this collection https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_fra or https://doi.org/10.21949/1530835.

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  • Railroad Spike Failure Mitigation Investigation of Tie Plate HoldDown Elements Research Results
    Railroad Spike Failure Mitigation: Investigation of Tie Plate Hold-Down Elements [Research Results]
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    Dersch, Marcus S. ;
    Khan, Rahat Mahmud
    2024-09-01
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    The Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) investigated methods to mitigate timber...
  • Screw Spike and Spring Washer Holddown Force and Resiliency Investigation Research Results
    Screw Spike and Spring Washer Holddown Force and Resiliency Investigation [Research Results]
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    Stuart, Cameron ;
    Dersch, Marcus S.
    2022-10-01
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    In 2022, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Association of American Railroads completed short-term field experiments to measure the rail forc...
  • Spike Loading Environment in Various Wood Tie Fastening Systems Research Results
    Spike Loading Environment in Various Wood Tie Fastening Systems [Research Results]
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    Baillargeon, Jay ;
    Woody, Stephen (Sean)
    2022-09-01
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    The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) contracted with Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to investigate the spike loading environment i...
  • Screw Spike and Spring Washer HoldDown Force and Resiliency Investigation Research Results
    Screw Spike and Spring Washer Hold-Down Force and Resiliency Investigation [Research Results]
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    Stuart, Cameron ;
    Dersch, Marcus S.
    2022-09-01
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    The Rail Transportation Engineering Center (RailTEC) at the University of Illinois (Illinois) is investigating spike failures in timber tie track to d...
  • Field Investigation of Broken Cut Spikes on Elastic Fasteners Using Instrumented Spikes Research Results
    Field Investigation of Broken Cut Spikes on Elastic Fasteners Using Instrumented Spikes [Research Results]
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    Baillargeon, Jay
    2021-04-01
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    FRA and Transportation Technology Center, Inc. conducted field experiments to investigate the spike failure mechanism found on elastic fastener tie pl...
  • Automated Broken Spike Detection Phase I
    Automated Broken Spike Detection – Phase I
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    Gao, Yin ;
    Poudel, Anish
    2021-04-01
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    Rail spikes connect railroad rails to the supporting crossties and secure tie plates and crossties together. Recent field inspections and observations...
  • Mechanistic Investigation of Timber Crosstie Spike Fastener Failures Phase I The Magnitude of the Spike Failure Challenge
    Mechanistic Investigation of Timber Crosstie Spike Fastener Failures – Phase I: The Magnitude of the Spike Failure Challenge
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    Roadcap, Tom ;
    Dersch, Marcus S.
    2021-03-01
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    The Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) performed a literature review, condu...
  • Investigating the Prominent Failure Mode of Cut Spikes Used in Elastic Fastening Systems
    Investigating the Prominent Failure Mode of Cut Spikes Used in Elastic Fastening Systems
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
    2020-05-01
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    Under the sponsorship of the Federal Railroad Administration, researchers conducted finite element (FE) analyses at the Volpe National Transportation ...
  • Timber Crosstie Spike Fastener Failure Investigation
    Timber Crosstie Spike Fastener Failure Investigation
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    Stuart, Cameron ;
    Roadcap, Tom
    2019-05-01
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    University of Illinois’ (UIUC) researchers completed an investigation of timber crosstie spike fastener failures on North American railroads between...
  • Performance of Elastic Fasteners on an 8Degree Curve in Revenue Service Research Results
    Performance of Elastic Fasteners on an 8-Degree Curve in Revenue Service [Research Results]
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    Maal, Luis ;
    Carr, Gary
    2011-04-01
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    A test of elastic rail fastening systems was conducted on an 8-degree curve in the Norfolk Southern (NS) Mega Site as part of the Revenue Service Test...