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Intermodalism in North America and World Markets
Published in Lowe FCILT David, Intermodal Freight Transport, 2006
Canada, like the USA, is heavily dependent on containerization and piggyback intermodalism. By way of example, an interesting report in the December 2003/January 2004 issue of CILT World (the World-wide Newsletter of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport) showed how a Canada–mid-west USA cross-border rail link is carrying large volumes of lorry trailers piggyback-style – much on the lines once envisioned here in the UK. Canadian Pacific Railway, following 3 years of trials, launched its ‘Expressway’ scheme in 2002; it runs regular services between Montreal, Toronto, Windsor (Ontario), and Detroit in the USA. The hardware statistics are impressive; trains are up to 1.8-kilometre long and are hauled by three or four diesel locomotives at 100 kilometres per hour. At the heart of this operation is the inland Port of Montreal, 1000 miles along the St Lawrence River and serving as a gateway for trade to and from mid-west USA. It handles more than 1 million containers annually. Much of the popularity of the trailer-only piggyback route is attributable to the shortage of truck drivers in both Canada and the USA, a problem increasingly being faced in the UK and Europe – only two shunter drivers are needed, one at each end. The service helps to overcome another equipment problem; namely, that it allows for continued utilization of Canada’s 3 million plus unstrengthened road semi-trailers still in circulation since there is no lifting requirement in the loading or unloading operation; its all done by conventional shunting with conventional dockside tractors.
Problems related to transportation of mineral materials through living environment
Published in Vladimír Strakoš, Vladimír Kebo, Radim Farana, Lubomír Smutný, Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 1997, 2020
Railroad transportation due to specific route (rail) causes damage to the ground, along with possible construction of cuttings, fills, tunnels and bridges. In trolley drive, construction of power plants is necessary. Noise and vibration are also present, as well as increased dust content when transporting fragmented material. If diesel locomotives are used for driving, then the environment is being polluted by exhaust gases, as well as by the leakage of fuels and lubricants along the route. Spillage of material is not a characteristic of railroad transportation.
Comparison of locomotive energy storage systems for heavy-haul operation
Published in International Journal of Rail Transportation, 2018
Maksym Spiryagin, Qing Wu, Peter Wolfs, Yan Sun, Colin Cole
With the recent development in battery technologies and material sciences, energy storage systems (ESSs), such as batteries and flywheels, have now been regarded as promising technologies for the development of hybrid railway vehicles [1]. This is particularly the case for diesel locomotives in heavy-haul operations [2]. The reasons are: (1) there is substantial energy possessed in heavy-haul trains; and (2) their energy cannot be harvested by diesel locomotives during brake applications. Note that, in this paper, diesel locomotive(s) refer to electric transmission diesel locomotive(s). The large weight and speed increase in a heavy-haul train operations leads to the situation when a big amount of energy is produced. Most heavy-haul railways have decreasing altitudes from pit to port and most heavy-haul operations apply empty-back practice [3]. The empty-back practice in heavy haul refers to a typical operational scenario when fully unloaded trains return back to mines from the port. In such operational scenarios, there is a high opportunity to regenerate enormous energy on many heavy-haul railway routes. To harvest the train braking energy, electric locomotives or diesel locomotives fitted with an ESS (i.e. hybrid locomotives) can be used.
Ion-plasma strengthening through the use of piston rings
Published in Welding International, 2020
T.S. Skoblo, A.I. Sidashenko, T.V. Maltsev, A.V. Taran, R.M. Muratov
Determination of the wear rate of oil scraper piston rings of a diesel locomotive diesel engine D100, strengthened by a multilayer ion-plasma coating of the TiN/CrN system, with the determination of its effective thickness and the ratio of coating components.