Transcript of proceedings in the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. United States of America, petitioner, vs. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, respondents. (no. 50 C 1746)

Opening statements. --v. 1-7. Rules to show cause.

Railroad trainmen's journal.

Description based on: Vol. 10, no. 177 (Nov. 1893).

Manual of information and instructions.

Earlier ed. issued under title Negotiating manual.

Transcript of proceedings, official papers, and award of the Board of arbitration : appointed under the provisions of the Railway labor act.

Frank M. Williams, official reporter.

Constitution.

1939-<1954> include constitution of the union's Insurance Dept.

Negotiating manual /

Includes index.

Negotiating manual.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report to the President by the Emergency Board appointed April 10, 1948 pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended : to investigate unadjusted disputes between the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and certain of its employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Philadelphia, Pa. and New York, N.Y. June 9, 1948 (N.M.B. case A 2791).

"Respectively submitted. Andrew Jackson, Chairman, James H. Wolfe, Member, E. Wight Bakke, Member"--Page [ii].

Report to the President by the Emergency Board appointed October 16, 1947 pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act : to investigate an unadjusted dispute between the Atlanta & West Point Railroad Co. and the Western Railway of Alabama and certain of its employees, represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, (NMB case no. A-2661), November 1, 1947.

Signed: Ernest M. Tipton, chairman, Harry H. Schwartz, member, John T. McCann, member.

Report to the President by the Emergency Board created December 16, 1947 pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act : to investigate unadjusted disputes between the Georgia Railroad and certain of its employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (NMB case no. A-2518), Atlanta, Georgia, January 20, 1948.

Signed: Floyd McGown, chairman, John T. McCann, member, Eugene L. Padberg, member.

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, an unincorporated Association [et al] appellants, vs. Chicago and North Western Railway Company, a corporation, appellee: appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Record.

At head of title: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. No. 17,098. Civil.

Transcript of proceedings of the Emergency Board appointed by the President of the United States, Chicago, Illinois, 1949 : engineers' diesel case : Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, vs. designated railroads.

Mode of access: Internet.

Greener and leaner : unleashing capacity of railroad concrete ties via limit states concept

New knowledge has raised a concern about the cost-ineffective design methods and the true performance of railroad prestressed concrete ties. Because of previous knowledge deficiencies, railway civil and track engineers have been aware of the conservative design methods for structural components in any railway track that rely on allowable stresses and material strength reductions. In particular, railway sleeper (or railroad tie) is an important component of railway tracks and is commonly made of prestressed concrete. The existing code for designing such components makes use of the permissible stress design concept, whereas the fiber stresses over cross sections at initial and final stages are limited by some empirical values. It is believed that the concrete ties complying with the permissible stress concept possess unduly untapped fracture toughness, based on a number of proven experiments and field data. Collaborative research run by the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Railway Engineering and Technologies (Rail CRC) was initiated to ascertain the reserved capacity of Australian railway prestressed concrete ties that were designed using the existing design code. The findings have led to the development of a new limit-states design concept. This paper highlights the conventional and the new limit-states design philosophies and their implication to both the railway community and the public. © 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers.

Nonprofit organisations and public policy : exploring the research role of the Brotherhood of St Laurence

This paper begins to explore the role of the Brotherhood of St Laurence as a nonprofit welfare organisation and its influence on public policy in Australia. The Brotherhood's impact on Australian social policy has been evident through a range of actions: the production of research on relevant social issues; the preparation of submissions and position papers and involvement in consultations with governments on social policy; and the personal influence of many of the charismatic (mostly) men who have led the organisation throughout its history. This paper highlights the Brotherhood’s research aspect and speculates upon the impact of its considerable research contribution. The Brotherhood has been involved in service delivery through a range of often innovative programs throughout its history, but the organisation's involvement in research and advocacy has rendered it unique in comparison to any other nonprofit welfare organisation in Australia. This paper finds that different kinds of research can be utilised in different ways; by studying the output of the Brotherhood it will explore and highlight how knowledge utilisation takes place. [Introduction]

Service condition of railroad corridors around the insulated rail joints

Railroad corridors contain large number of Insulated Rail Joints (IRJs) that act as safety critical elements in the circuitries of the signaling and broken rail identification systems. IRJs are regarded as sources of excitation for the passage of loaded wheels leading to high impact forces; these forces in turn cause dips, cross levels and twists to the railroad geometry in close proximity to the sections containing the IRJs in addition to the local damages to the railhead of the IRJs. Therefore, a systematic monitoring of the IRJs in railroad is prudent to mitigate potential risk of their sudden failure (e.g., broken tie plates) under the traffic. This paper presents a simple method of periodic recording of images using time-lapse photography and total station surveying measurements to understand the ongoing deterioration of the IRJs and their surroundings. Over a 500 day period, data were collected to examine the trends in narrowing of the joint gap due to plastic deformation the railhead edges and the dips, cross levels and twists caused to the railroad geometry due to the settlement of ties (sleepers) around the IRJs. The results reflect that the average progressive settlement beneath the IRJs is larger than that under the continuously welded rail, which leads to excessive deviation of railroad profile, cross levels and twists.