Journal articles: 'Transcontinental railroad'

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Yochelson, B. "Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad." Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (May 22, 2014): 275–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau348.

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Brunet, François. "Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad." History of Photography 38, no. 4 (October 2, 2014): 437–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2014.949116.

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Link, Alessandra. "Editing for Expansion: Railroad Photography, Native Peoples, and the American West, 1860–1880." Western Historical Quarterly 50, no. 3 (2019): 281–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/whq/whz043.

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Abstract In the nineteenth century, both railroad expansion and photography influenced relations between the United States and Native peoples in powerful ways. Scholars have often dealt with these two technological developments separately, but photographs and railroads have a shared history. Throughout the mid-to-late nineteenth century railroad companies engaged with photographs and photographers to promote travel on their lines. This article evaluates the production and circulation of transcontinental railroad photographs, and it concludes that the so-called golden age of landscape photography was built on the suppression of peopled scenes in the West. Images of Indians and trains that reached broad audiences placed Indigenous peoples in opposition to the modern forces cast in steel and running on steam. Picturing an unpeopled West and anti-modern Indians brightened business prospects for those investing in the promise of U.S. expansion beyond the 100th meridian.

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Duran, Xavier. "The First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad: Expected Profits and Government Intervention." Journal of Economic History 73, no. 1 (March 2013): 177–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050713000065.

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Construction of the first transcontinental railroad, financed with large federal subsidies, is an important event in American history. Were the subsidies necessary to induce private investment in the railroad? The ex-ante investment decision examined uses contemporary reports and a simulation model to show that investors expected the railroad to be profitable. Evidence also shows that the railroad created political conflicts in Congress between the North and South. The secession removed the South as a disputant in Congress, reducing short-term political conflict but not long-term conflict. Subsidies reduced political risk, rather than transport market failure, and encouraged private investment.

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Chappell, Gordon, and David Haward Bain. "Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad." Western Historical Quarterly 32, no. 1 (2001): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3650863.

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Howard, Thomas Fredrick, David Haward Bain, and Stephen E. Ambrose. "Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad." Geographical Review 92, no. 4 (October 2002): 608. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4140940.

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Pellolio, Natalie. "Overland to California: Commemorating the Transcontinental Railroad." California History 96, no. 2 (2019): 59–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2019.96.2.59.

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Brown, Jeff L. "Uniting the States: The First Transcontinental Railroad." Civil Engineering Magazine Archive 82, no. 7 (July 2012): 40–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/ciegag.0000564.

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Francaviglia, Richard V., and Jimmy L. Bryan. ""Are We Chimerical in this Opinion?" Visions of a Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1845." Pacific Historical Review 71, no. 2 (May 1, 2002): 179–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2002.71.2.179.

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Although he deserves credit for promoting a transcontinental railroad as early as 1845, Asa Whitney may better represent the culmination of a discourse that had begun over twenty years earlier. Visions of a Pacific railroad originated in the 1820s and evolved into a widely debated issue by the 1830s. From the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, early promoters not only envisioned railroads to Oregon but also into the Mexican provinces of California and Sonora——suggesting that such visions represented an important element of U.S. expansionism. Relying on romantically charged language, advocates ignored geographical and political realities and wedded their vision with a faith in railroad technology that was yet in its infancy. Wishing to lay claim to the perceived riches of the Asian trade, advocates described the Pacific railroad as a commercial venture, preceding actual settlement. Northerners generally promoted routes to Oregon, while the South sought California and Sonora as destinations, but these contending visions should not be confused with the sectionalism that characterized the debates over the railroad during the 1850s. Instead, the differences present in the discourse of the 1830s largely reflect civic boosterism. While scholars have noted these earlier visionaries, this article analyzes their ideas and places them in the context of U.S. expansion to the Pacific.

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Dudley Gardner, A. "Rails East to Ogden: Utah’s Transcontinental Railroad Story." Historical Archaeology 56, no. 1 (January 3, 2022): 164–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41636-021-00327-y.

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Carson, Scott Alan. "Chinese Sojourn Labor and the American Transcontinental Railroad." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 161, no. 1 (2005): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1628/0932456054254443.

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Perham, Arnold E., and Faustine L. Perham. "Tracking Rates and History along the Transcontinental Railroad." Mathematics Teacher 108, no. 7 (March 2015): 528–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mathteacher.108.7.0528.

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Grant, H. Roger. "Glenn Willumson. Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad." American Historical Review 119, no. 1 (January 30, 2014): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.1.185.

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Monroe, Alexis. "Whiteness and the West before the Transcontinental Railroad." American Art 36, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 28–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/722525.

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Drake, James D. "A Divide to Heal the Union." Pacific Historical Review 84, no. 4 (November 1, 2015): 409–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2015.84.4.409.

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This article traces the process by which people in the United States embraced the Continental Divide as a geographic feature of North America in the late 1860s. Building on recent work in environmental history, Civil War memory, geography, and the history of nationalism, the essay explains how accurate mapping alone did not reveal the Continental Divide. Instead, the divide’s conceptualization also depended on Americans’ history of thinking about the Rockies as a political boundary, southern secession, and the building of the transcontinental railroad. Many Americans found in that railroad’s construction solace for a nation recovering from the Civil War, and they cast themselves as conquering nature to unite the nation. Railroad boosters and passengers consecrated the Continental Divide as a symbol of national unity and an icon of obstacles overcome. In a nation trying to overcome its sectional division between North and South, aspirations for reunification formed a foundation for emphasizing the continent’s most prominent feature that separates East and West.

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Johnson. "Women and the Transcontinental Railroad Through Utah, 1868–1869." Utah Historical Quarterly 88, no. 4 (2020): 306. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/utahhistquar.88.4.0306.

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Merritt, Christopher W., Michael R. Polk, Kenneth P. Cannon, Michael Sheehan, Glenn Stelter, and Ray Kelsey. "Rolling to the 150th: Sesquicentennial of the Transcontinental Railroad." Utah Historical Quarterly 85, no. 4 (October 1, 2017): 352–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/utahhistquar.85.4.0352.

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Freeman, Richard. "Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad by Glenn Willumson." Great Plains Quarterly 35, no. 2 (2015): 218–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2015.0030.

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Khor, Denise. "Archives, Photography, and Historical Memory." Southern California Quarterly 98, no. 4 (2016): 429–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/scq.2016.98.4.429.

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This article discusses the goals, contents, scope, and potential of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, a digital archive to be made public in 2019. The article includes examples of the research and acquisition of previously unknown materials for the archive. It concludes with a demonstration of how the archive’s diverse materials can be used by scholars—a study of the depiction of Chinese laborers in the photographs commissioned by the transcontinental railroad companies, in conjunction with the rail companies’ payroll records and the photographers’ oeuvre.

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Wegars, Priscilla. "The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad." Utah Historical Quarterly 87, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 352–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/utahhistquar.87.4.0352.

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Draper, Timothy Dean. "The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad." Journal of American Ethnic History 39, no. 4 (July 1, 2020): 90–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.39.4.0090.

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Hinnershitz, Stephanie. "The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad." Journal of American History 107, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 765–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa403.

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Burton, Antoinette. "Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad." Journal of American History 106, no. 4 (March 1, 2020): 1082–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaz757.

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Regele, Lindsay Schakenbach. "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad." Journal of Cultural Economy 13, no. 2 (January 23, 2020): 250–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2020.1716826.

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Hofsommer, Donovan L. "Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869, and: Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (review)." Technology and Culture 43, no. 1 (2002): 169–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2002.0018.

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Fraga, Sean. "“An Outlet to the Western Sea”: Puget Sound, Terraqueous Mobility, and Northern Pacific Railroad’s Pursuit of Trade with Asia, 1864–1892." Western Historical Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2020): 439–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/whq/whaa114.

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Abstract The Northern Pacific Railroad saw Puget Sound harbors as environments uniquely suited to connect the North American interior with the Pacific Ocean and enable U.S. trade with East Asia. But in building the physical infrastructure to link transcontinental trains with transpacific ships, Northern Pacific significantly altered Commencement Bay’s shoreline and displaced Puyallups from their traditional territory. The articles uses a terraqueous perspective, emphasizing movement between terrestrial and aqueous environments, to demonstrate how U.S. pursuit of transpacific trade shaped the North American West.

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Kim, Chul Su, Gil Hyun Kang, and Seung Ho Jang. "A Study on the Development of the Korean Gauge-Adjustable Wheelset System for Freight Train." Advanced Materials Research 199-200 (February 2011): 337–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.199-200.337.

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To reduce the cost and the time of transport in Eurasian railroad networks such as TKR(Trans-Korea Railway), TCR(Trans-China Railway) and TSR(Trans-Siberia Railway) owing to the problem of different track gauges (narrow/standard/broad gauge), it is important to develop the gauge-adjustable wheelset (GAW) system to adapt easily to these gauges. The GAW system in the transcontinental railway represents a more effective way in comparison with other techniques for overcoming difference in track gauges. Freight trains having the GAW system will be passing various curved tracks in railroad networks. In this study, it was performed to evaluate contact stress and fatigue life of locking parts during freight trains' service in the curved track, respectively. Moreover, the safety of Korean GAW system at running track was verified by rig tests according to UIC 510-4 code.

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Bhutani, Asmita. "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (Book Review)." Studies in Social Justice 14, no. 2 (January 9, 2021): 528–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v14i2.2592.

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Klein, Maury, and John Hoyt Williams. "A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad." Technology and Culture 30, no. 4 (October 1989): 1055. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3106217.

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Bhutani, Asmita. "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (Book Review)." Studies in Social Justice 14, no. 2 (January 9, 2021): 528–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v14i2.2592.

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Stover, John F., and John Hoyt Williams. "A Great & Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad." Journal of American History 76, no. 1 (June 1989): 267. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1908421.

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Hofsommer, Don L., and John Hoyt Williams. "A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad." American Historical Review 95, no. 3 (June 1990): 918. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2164478.

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Bryant, Keith L., and John Hoyt Williams. "A Great & Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad." Western Historical Quarterly 20, no. 3 (August 1989): 348. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/969558.

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Polk, Michael R. "Interpreting Chinese Worker Camps on the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah." Historical Archaeology 49, no. 1 (March 2015): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03376958.

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Adkins, Marlowe C. "A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad." Utah Historical Quarterly 57, no. 1 (January 1, 1989): 97–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/45061745.

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Kumar, Shashi N., and Vijay Rajan. "An analysis of intermodal transport carrier selection criteria for pacific-rim imports to New England." Journal of Transportation Management 13, no. 1 (April 1, 2002): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22237/jotm/1017619440.

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The introduction of double stack rail services opened up a variety of transportation options for shippers located in the North Eastern parts of the U.S. The availability of transcontinental double stack service from the Canadian West Coast has increased this option even further particularly because of a recent new service introduced by a small U.S. railroad company. The paper uses Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology to provide a decision-making framework for the intermodal choices of shippers located in the region suitable for duplication elsewhere where similar options exist.

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Shapiro, Justin. "Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka." Technology and Culture 63, no. 2 (April 2022): 585–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2022.0089.

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Jopanda, Wayne Silao. "Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka." Journal of Asian American Studies 23, no. 3 (2020): 516–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2020.0040.

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Fisher, Andrew H. "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka." Labor 17, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 138–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8643768.

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Rau, Emily J. "Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka." Great Plains Quarterly 40, no. 3 (2020): 246–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2020.0041.

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Watts, Jennifer A. "Book Review: Willumson, Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad, by Jennifer A. Watts." Pacific Historical Review 83, no. 4 (2014): 689–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2014.83.4.689.

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Chudoba, B., G. Coleman, X. Huang, and P. A. Czysz. "Conceptual design assessment of a suborbital tourist space access vehicle." Aeronautical Journal 112, no. 1135 (September 2008): 523–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001924000002487.

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Abstract Space transportation remains in the pioneering stages. What might this century bring if we had a ‘railroad to space’ that embodied the characteristics of the transcontinental undertaking? The X-33 and Venture Star projects were one attempt to achieve the characteristics of that transcontinental railroad. There are others, here and in other countries, but perhaps we need to begin with a smaller first step, a small, commercial reusable rocket with ballistic ascent to space altitude with a hypersonic glider return? Our challenge in space today is to develop vehicles that are in continuous use, maintained and operated on a fixed schedule despite weather or environmental hazards, which move payloads not only into space but back again. The X PRIZE was a $10 million prize awarded to Scaled Composites as the first privately financed spaceship that launched the equivalent of three persons to an altitude of at least 100 kilometers on two consecutive flights within two weeks. What about an analogous vehicle that flies two or three times a week, every week for a number of years? A major difference is that this challenge is to be accomplished without government support or government developed vehicles. The aerospace vehicle design (AVD) Laboratory team at the University of Texas at Arlington is developing a generic space access vehicle (SAV) design synthesis environment with focus on the conceptual design phase. The AVD Lab has applied elements of this toolbox to the study of a tourist aerospace vehicle under a grant from Rocketplane Limited, Inc. The development of a low-cost tourist vehicle based on the adaptation of a Learjet 25/35/45 series aircraft is the focus of this paper.

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Barton, John D. "Review: Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, by Manu Karuka." Pacific Historical Review 89, no. 2 (2020): 300–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2020.89.2.300.

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Verstraete, Ginette. "Railroading America." Theory, Culture & Society 19, no. 5-6 (December 2002): 145–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026327602761899192.

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This article studies the material production and consumption of the national community in 19th-century America. More particularly, it concentrates on the intersection between particular technologies of transportation, representation and dissemination in the spatial and imaginary formation of the American nation in the 1860s. Through an analysis of the contradictory mechanism of placement and displacement, identity and difference at the heart of a particular state-sanctioned field of national production the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad in 19th-century California the essay highlights what tends to remain hidden in narrowly defined `cultural' (textual) approaches to nationhood: its involvement in racial, gendered and class-related divisions between private and public space, home and travel, labour and capital, technology and nature.

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Kelley, Klara, and Harris Francis. "Many Generations, Few Improvements: “Americans” Challenge Navajos on the Transcontinental Railroad Grant, Arizona, 1881–1887." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 25, no. 3 (January 1, 2001): 73–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicr.25.3.g36h9g491144gn84.

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Nugent, Walter, and Stephen E. Ambrose. "Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869." Journal of American History 88, no. 2 (September 2001): 657. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2675159.

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Ling, Huping. "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad." Journal of American History 107, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa096.

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Dearinger, Ryan. "Chinese Immigrants, the Landscape of Progress, and the Work of Building and Celebrating the Transcontinental Railroad." California History 96, no. 2 (2019): 66–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2019.96.2.66.

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Fel'dman, B. N., and V. A. Luk'yanov. "Prospects of development of the power industry in the zone of influence of the transcontinental railroad." Hydrotechnical Construction 27, no. 8 (August 1993): 463–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01545140.

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Kim, Chul Su, Cheon Soo Jang, Seung Ho Jang, and Jung Kyu Kim. "Fatigue Analysis of Locking Parts in the Gauge-Adjustable Wheelsets System Considering the Variation of the Fatigue Strength." Advanced Materials Research 33-37 (March 2008): 217–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.33-37.217.

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To reduce the cost and time of transport due to the different track gauges(narrow, standard, broad) in the Eurasian railroad network such as TKR(Trans-Korea Railway), TCR(Trans-China Railway) and TSR(Trans-Siberia Railway), it is very necessary to develop and adapt the gauge-adjustable wheelsets system. The freight trains’ with gauge-adjustable system could operate on the different track gauges in the transcontinental railway. Therefore, to assure the safety of the newly developed gauge-adjustment wheelsets system, it is essential to evaluate integrity of locking parts in the system by using fatigue analysis. In this study, it was performed that contact stress analysis of locking parts by using FEM(Finite Element Method) in the case both the gauge changeover operation and freight trains' service in the curved track, respectively. Besides, to consider the variation of fatigue data, the crack initiation life was statistically evaluated.

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