Railworks America

I just ran into this, and wanted to share. Some of the books are painfully old, but perhaps someone can make use of them:
http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=railro ... s&as_brr=4

This is a great find. With only a few minutes of browsing through the first book I happened to click on, I came across a wealth of information relating to track design---specifically with regard to superelevation and transition spirals (easements). For example, there is an equation given for calculating the proper superelevation through a curve:

e = 0.000058D*V^2

...where e represents the height difference between the inner and outer rail, D is the degree of the curve (D=5730/radius), and V is the velocity, in miles per hour, of the fastest anticipated train.

With the upcoming release of TS2012 and the introduction of greater control over track geometry, this is exactly the sort of information that can be put to good use inside the sim.

Ryan

Anyone have a Google account that would be willing to grab these two books and send them to me?

Hawk,

Got them for you, but they are huge (39.3 and 28.2MB each). Feel free to contact me directly if you can give me a location to upload them to.

Trevor

WOW! I didn't expect them to be that big.
You can send them at this link. http://railworksamerica.com/rwa_sub/upload-page.html

I'll get that done today Hawk. I found two more that I think you will like too based on the two you wanted.

Trevor

Upload completed Hawk.

Trevor

Got 'em.

I didn't even think about these books being about the steam era.
Still interesting stuff in them though.

nice find, thank you

These could be of interest to someone

http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=p_3VA ... e_bookcard

http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=quZSA ... =&as_brr=5

plenty of drawings & diagrams in both books

bs rr co wrote:These could be of interest to someone

http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=p_3VA ... e_bookcard

http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=quZSA ... =&as_brr=5

plenty of drawings & diagrams in both books

Outstanding find on those two!

Trevor

Ran into another interesting find:
Southern Pacific Bulletin, Volume 7; Volumes 11-12
http://books.google.com/books?id=4hAhAQ ... &q&f=false

Common standard specifications; structural steel for railway bridges, steel ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=PhBIAA ... &q&f=false

The overland route to the road of a thousand wonders: route of the Union ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=x6Wt80 ... &q&f=false
In color no less!