Nothing highlights the impact and risks of the global supply chain on the North American rail industry better than wheels. Yes, wheels for rail rolling stock: freight cars, passenger and transit cars, ...

MxV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE MAY 2023 ISSUE: Hollow wear is a typical form of wheel wear often measured and reported by wayside wheel profile detector (WPD) systems that allow the monitoring of hollow ...

While train wheels may look simple, their conical design actually conceals some of the smartest engineering solutions in transport. Far from just trundling along steel rails, it's the shape of the ...

Indian engineering company Jindal Steel and Power (JSP) has entered a technology partnership with GIFLO Steel – Hungary to launch a rail wheelset manufacturing plant at its Raigarh facility in the ...

With the latest product CALIPRI X, together with CALIPRI Predictor, Hexagon introduces a ground-breaking, automated, permanently-installed solution for precise train wheel profile measurement and ...

The vast majority of trains on the planet depend on the friction (also known as adhesion traction) between steel drive wheels and steel rails to turn power into motion, but the somewhat slippery metal ...

Lighter wheels are faster wheels. And after decades of incremental advancements in wheel casting and forging technology, additive manufacturing (3D-printing) is primed to transform how little ...