Track Loading System Updates


Updates

February 19 2014

Recent Progress: Actuators Attached to the Wheelset.

Actuators attached to wheelset
Close-up side-view of actuator connected to wheelset.
Close-up iso-view of actuator connected to wheelset.

February 17 2014

Recent Progress: Construction Update

Overall view of RAIL lab.
Actuators hung and ready for loading.
Control Platform
View of track facing north.
Close-up of track structure with instrumentation installed.

December 16 2013

Recent Progress: Ballast Construction Completed

Overall view of track structure.
Close-up of track structure.

November 6 2013

Recent Progress: Rail and IWS Placement

Overall view of track with IWS.
Iso-view of IWS on track.

October 24 2013

Recent Progress: Placement of Crossties

Overall view of crosstie placement.
Closeup of crosstie placement.
Centerline of track.
Side view of crossties.

October 15 2013

Recent Progress: Ballast to Bottom of Crosstie

Profile view of ballast construction.
Side view of ballast construction.
Close-up of ballast at bottom of crosstie height.

October 11 2013

Recent Progress: Subballast Construction (75% complete)

Overview of subballast construction progress.
Close-up of subballast.

October 4 2013

Recent Progress: Subgrade Construction Complete

Overview of subgrade construction progress.
Close-up of final grade.
Close-up of final grade.
Final grade stakes placed.

September 23 2013

Recent Progress: Subgrade Construction (~50% complete)

Overview of subgrade construction progress.
Hanson Profesional Services, Inc. construction project specialist ensuring lift compaction density.
A remote controlled vibratory sheepsfoot compactor was used to compact the subgrade.
The initial stages of construction and instrumentation.

September 17 2013

Recent Progress: Completed Walls and Bulkheads

Lateral structural beams constructed and the reinforcing bulkhead placed.
Close-up of the lateral structural beam connection to the vertical column.

August 15 2013

Recent Progress: Completed Walls and Bulkheads

Wooden walls and bulkheads completed – south-east.
Wooden bulkheads completed – south.

July 25 2013

Recent Progress: Vertical Columns

Vertical Columns beginning to be errected.

July 23 2013

Recent Progress: Floor Installed and Columns Extended

Completed track loading system floor from above.
Completed track loading system floor looking south.
Completed track loading system floor looking north.
Zoom in on extended track loading system floor beams looking north.
Track loading system columns being extended via bolted plate.

July 18 2013

Recent Progress: Floor Beams Completed and Laid out for Construction

Track loading system floor layout from above.
Track loading system completed floor beams ready for installation.
Floor layout prior to construction looking south.