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Get Back on Track with Safety: How Rail Switch Maintenance Renews Your Customers’ Trust

In Rail, Rail & Mass Transit, Rail Lubrication, Railroads by Steve Vitale

Many businesses understand the significant cost benefits that come with choosing railroad shipping. In 2020, RSI Logistics compared the cost difference for shipping products from Cleveland, OH to Houston, TX between the trucking and rail systems. Taking in a railroad cart’s ability to carry four times more than a single truck load, RSI determined the railcar cost equivalent as just $1,669 …

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Don’t Let Harsh Winter Conditions Derail Your Trains

In Ice Free Switch®, Ice Slicer®, Rail, Rail & Mass Transit, Rail Lubrication, Railroads, Zero Gravity Third Rail® by Bob Vitale

Even with today’s advances in technology, severe winter weather continues to exert huge pressure on derailment prevention. Winter months see operations costs explode as railways fight snow and ice buildup, cold temperatures, significant delays, breakdown of equipment and increased manhours.  But by far the worst, and most expensive, cost of winter weather are accidents, with the accompanying losses in injuries, …