(erielack) Flange Oilers - Low Rail

[ShepRail_@_aol.com]

    Way back when slow orders were placed on the former Delaware Division of 
the Erie Railroad due to track conditions, Conrail began to experience a 
number of derailments caused when wheels of freight cars began to climb the 
low rail on curves with high superelevation.  The incidents often involved 
high cube cars enroute to the Ford Assembly Plant at Mahwah and caused 
significant service disruptions.

    In order to immediately remedy this problem until the track could be 
repaired and
superelevation reduced, existing flange oilers were switched from the high 
rail to the low rail.  As a result, the number of derailments were greatly 
reduced in this territory. 

                                                                              
               Bill Sheppard

 

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