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    OUTLINE

    • ORAL TEST
    • Introduction to PGRE
    • Need for PGRE
    • Future Programs

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    TEST- Question #1

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    TEST- Question #2

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    TEST- Question #3

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    TEST- Question #4

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    TEST- Question #5

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Practical Guide to Railway Engineering

    • STEP 1 in the Solution


    • Realistic Need / Value
    • 800-pages
    • 13 Chapters
    • 1200-years combined
    experience
    • 50 + Contributors

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Introduction to PGRE
    Chap. 1 - Railway Development
    Chap. 2 - Railway Industry Overview
    Chap. 3 - Basic Track
    Chap. 4 - ROW and Roadbed
    Chap. 5 - Drainage
    Chap. 6 - Railway Track Design
    Chap. 7 - Communications & Signals

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Introduction to PGRE
    Chap. 8 - Railway Structures
    Chap. 9 - Railway Electrification
    Chap. 10 - Passenger / Transit and High-
    Speed Rail
    Chap. 11 - Enviro. Regulations & Permitting
    Chap. 12 - European Curve & Turnout
    Mechanics
    Chap 13 - Case Studies
    Glossary
    Committee 24-Education & Training
    Chap. 3 - Basic Track
    • Track Components &
    Terminology
    • Crossings (Highway,
    Railway & Utility)
    • Track Geometry
    • Safety
    • Maintenance Activities
    • Production Gangs

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Chap. 6 - Railway Track Design
    • Stationing
    • Horz. / Vert. Alignment
    • Alignment Design
    (i.e. buff & drag)
    • Turnouts
    • Design of Yards
    • Clearances

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Chap. 7 – Comm. & Signals

    • Basic Track Circuits


    Code System

    Code Line
    Office Unit
    • Energy Sources
    Microwave
    Control
    Relay
    Indication
    Relay
    • Track Switches
    Data Radio

    • Highway Crossings
    Signal
    • Centralized Traffic
    Switch
    Code System
    Office Unit Control (CTC)
    • Defect Detectors

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Chap. 8 - Railway Structures
    • Bridge Types and Components
    • Other Railway Structures
    • Design Considerations
    – Loads
    – Load Combinations
    • Specific Design
    Considerations
    – Fracture Critical
    – Fatigue
    – Composite Design

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Chap. 13 - Case Studies

    • Actual Railway Projects


    • Template
    – critical stakeholders
    – controlling criteria
    – potential problems
    – learn from past mistakes
    • Library of Case Studies

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Digital Age

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Practical Guide to Railway Engineering

    WHY DID WE
    DO THIS?
    Committee 24-Education & Training
    Railway Demographics

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Common mistakes

    • Turnout in a curve or through a grade crossing


    • No place to install the signals
    • Insufficient tangent length between reverse
    curves
    • On tandem leads, placing the switch stand so
    that switchman must cross one ladder track to
    throw the switch

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Future Programs

    • Speaker Program
    • University Modules
    • Scholarship & Student Chapter
    • PGRE Training Seminar

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Mentoring Program

    Who mentored
    you?….Pass it on!

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Are YOU older than dirt?
    • Log tables • Stringline a curve
    • K & E Transit and reading the • Double slip turnout
    vernier (w/o a magnifying glass) • Center bound tie
    • Line-ups • Drainage surveys
    • Anti-Creepers • 71/7 turnout (Milwaukee)
    • Motor cars • Highball
    • Using a hand or lock level • One and two man rip-rap
    • Non self-leveling levels • Wig-wags
    • “Plumb the rod” • Teamster and slip scraper
    • “Chain” • Using “Allen Book” tables
    • Bridge cut-offs • “Dog-nuts” or “roadmaster”
    • Mud rail • Hostler
    • Spot board • Hospital train
    • Building a turnout from scratch • Journal brass
    • Date nails • Spike killed
    • Bending a stock rail • Bridge dump

    Committee 24-Education & Training


    Where do I get my Practical Guide?

    Committee 24-Education & Training

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