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Yeah, I forgot about the curve wear. I've seen one tight curve here that had so much taken off that the wear line was half way across the top of the rail head. Do they use any form of track greasing in USA? Over here there use to be grease pots near tight curves. The wheel would trigger a little button by the rail head and a pick up a small amount of grease as it passed over which would get smeared around the curve and reduce rail wear. It was surprising how far that grease travelled, and what a good job it did. When they cut back on track staff the grease pots didn't get filled any more. Now they send someone around once a week in a jeep on wheels that spays it on (and the next train following usually has problems with wheel slip!!), and the rail still wears out. The old system did a better job and saved on rail wear long term. But everyone now is into short term tresults. If you can cut 1 guys wage bill you save money (doesn't matter that you have to employ 2 more to fix all the long term effects from not having him, that comes from a different budget). Glen.
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