Proper treatment of track for fast passenger traffic; factors limiting speed of trains; adapting curves to various classes of traffic; "equilibrium" and comfortable speeds with corresponding spiral lengths; curves of driver tractive force and train resistance; acceleration and retardation curves; diagrams of theoretical speeds.


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    Title :

    Track studies for speeding up trains


    Additional title:

    Civ Eng (NY)


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Civil Engineering (New York) ; 6 , n 9 ; p 589-593


    Publication date :

    1936


    Size :

    5 pages


    Remarks:

    Bibliography


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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