2018 Heavy Haul Sessions Speakers

Walter Rosenberger

Norfolk Southern

Long Train Coupler Forces

Scott Cummings

Transportation Technology Center, Inc.

A New Wheel Profile for North American Freight Railroads: AAR-2A

Corina Moore

Ontario Northland

Leading Change: How a Century Old Short Line Renewed Itself

Jiandong Jiang

Transport for New South Wales

From Curve Squeal to Bogie Steering

Eric Magel

National Research Council, Canada

ICRI studies on RCF and Rail Grinding

Wesley Thomas

Sentient Science

Economics of Grinding and Milling

Arthur Clouse

FRA

Future of Railroad Track Safety

Matt Dick

Ensco

Machine Vision and Strip Chart Assessment of Rolling Contact Fatigue

Mike Roney

Iron Moustache

Industry Innovators and Thought Leaders: Silver Bullet Technologies

Gary Wolf

Wolf Railway Consulting, LLC.

Case Studies of Derailments Caused by Poor Management of the Wheel-Rail Interface

George Fowler

Transportation Safety Board of Canada

Examining the Role of the Wheel/Rail Interaction in a Derailment

Doublestack Rail Rollover: Déjà Vu or Something New?

Richard Pilon

Amsted Rail

Research on wear behavior of various AAR class C wheel steels