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    Hi Steve, An option is the AREMA Railway Careers Network where members receive a discount to post a job. Please contact Lindsay McNicholas, Director of Marketing, at lmcnicholas@arema.org if you have any questions. ------------------------------ ...

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    Curious if help wanted posts are allowed? As you all know finding good help is hard to come by and finding good, experienced railroaders is even more difficult. We have looked into purchasing advertising space with RT&S, Railway Age, and others but this ...

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    Hi Matt: Your answer is valid if there were no anti-creep devices to arrest rail movement. AREMA turnouts do not have those, thus rail anchor is necessary. For EU turnouts there are sixteen anti-creep devices on a turnout, each one is 45 ...

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    Hi Nazmul- That is a good point and good questions that would be interesting to answer (I don't know the answers). I will say that we do experience rail defects and broken rails in various parts of special trackwork, so it is important to be able to ...

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    Hi Matt: A frozen ballasted track behave like a DF track. I wonder if no anchors work on a ballasted track, why are anchors required on guideway; especially in presence of anti-creep devices that can take load in the event of rail break. ...

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