2022 Heavy Haul Sessions Speakers

Brad Kerchof

Advanced Rail Management Corp.

Can Autonomous Track Geometry Inspection Replace Traditional Manual Track Inspection? An Industry Update.

Richard Stock

Plasser & Theurer

Interactions Between Wheel and Rail Hardness, Wear, RCF and Maintenance (Perceptions And Realities)

Dylan Gareau

CP Rail

Mitigating Track Buckling from Heavy Train Braking Using Automated Alerts

Louisa Stanlake

L.B. Foster Rail Technologies

State of the Art / Recent Developments in Friction Management Consumables (GF and TOR)

Ulrich Spangenberg

Transportation Technology Center, Inc.

Charting the Relationship Between Asymmetric Wear and Hollow-worn Wheels

Rob Lambert

Monash University, Institute of Railway Technology

Remote Condition Monitoring of Track Assets

Joe Kalousek

National Research Council - Canada

Wear and Contact Fatigue Model for Rail

Dan Hampton

CSX Transportation

Ankur Ashtekar

Sentient Science

Update on CSX Rail Life Extension Initiatives

Michael Roney

Iron Moustache

Brent Laing

Laing Railway Consulting

Learnings from 20 Years of Canadian Track-Caused Derailment Investigations

Gary Wolf

Wolf Railway Consulting, LLC.

Effects of Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) on Derailment Risk

Randy Jamieson

Atticus Consulting Group LLC

Daniel Smilek

Atticus Consulting Group LLC

The Role of Human Factors in Inspection Errors / Failures in the Railway Industry

Brad Kerchof

Advanced Rail Management Corp.

RBM Frogs: Design Features, Field Testing & Maintenance