Dale Cassels Web of Detectors ACACSO May 2013 “Never Stop A Train For Mechanical Failure”

Joint Wayside Diagnostic System - JWDS Goal – Proactive identification of mechanical risks to minimize line of road stops Eliminate mechanical-caused line of road stops and derailments Reduce the stress state of our Railroad Centralized repository for ALL detector data Identifies and prioritizes conditions we want to know Enables car inspectors to move from finders to fixers CSX, UP and NS share software and rules logic through the JWDS Consortium.

Joint Wayside Diagnostic System - JWDS Before JWDS, we were REACTIVE to what the detector was telling us. Now… we are PROACTIVE as to what the equipment is telling us.

Web of Detector Acronyms ABD – Acoustic Bearing Listens to passing trains for bearing & locomotive gear defects – early warning AEI - Automated Equipment Identification Radio Frequency based system that reads car and locomotive tags Allows us to piece the defect information to the car and position on the car in JWDS HBD/WTD – Hot Bearing – Wheel Temperature HBD measures the temperature of roller bearings and reports defects as an axle count from head end of train WTD measures heat on wheels to see cars in trains that are in braking and should not be or cars not braking that should – Effective Braking & overheating wheels OGD – Optical Geometry - Truck Performance Laser/Vision system to measure the relationship between the wheel flange and the rail gauge WILD – Wheel Impact Load, Hunting Truck & Overload-Imbalanced Load Measure wheel impacts in both horizontal and vertical directions to determine the degree of wheel impacts and loading conditions of cars WPD – Wheel Profile Laser/Vision System to measure wheel profiles thresholding for AAR/FRA defects such as: High Flange, Thin Rim or Thin Flange, Hollow Worn etc.

Combined Wheel & Bearing Temperature Detector Deflector Hot Wheel

Hot Wheel Detector – data displayed

Damage from Dragging Brakes

Hot Bearing Detector - CyberScan

Networked Hot Bearing Detector Data Bearing Temp Rising

What are the benefits of Trended Temp Data?

Wheel Profile Detector – Hump Installation

Wheel Profile Detector – Line of Road

Wheel Profile Detector Lasers & Cameras WPD Threshold Settings (in 16ths) Rim Thickness: LT 12/16 - 14/16 (33”/36”) Flange Thickness: LT 14/16 Flange Height: GT 24/16 FRA Condemning (in 16ths) Rim Thickness: LT 11 Flange Thickness: LT 14 Flange Height: GT 24 IEM WISE® 13

Machine Vision - Brake Shoe – at Hump Light Sources Camera

Notification of Worn Brake Shoes “We got a thin brake shoe on the R3 wheel of this car!”

Dragging Equipment Detector

Optical Geometry Detector OGD Wheel Sensors

OGD: Principle of Operation 18 18

OGD, Conditions Measured:

Acoustic Bearing Detector – south of Waycross

Acoustic Bearing Detector Microphones

Bearing Faults from Acoustic Detectors Cup

More Bearing Faults from Acoustic Detectors

Wheel Impact Load Detector Strain Gages to measure vertical & lateral forces

WILD Wheels This wheel was measured with 153,000 pounds of force banging on the rail with every rotation. This wheel shows initial flat spots developing.

Automatic Equipment Identification Reader - AEI Processor Antenna

Our Supersites have co-located equipment Hot Bearing AEI WILD & Hunting Truck Acoustic Acoustic Wheel Profile Optical Geometry

The Web of Detectors Voorheesville, NY Supersites WILD Only Today, 706 HBD’s are networked and trending, and we are adding more as we replace older equipment…. Approximately 850 hot bearing detectors Selkirk, NY Queensgate, OH Waycross, GA CSX System Test Site Voorheesville, NY Hague, GA Carson, VA Springfield, PA Sleepy Creek MD Lowell, WV Johnson City, TN Cartersville, GA Self Creek, AL Grafton, Ohio Pendleton, IN Walthourville, GA Supersites WILD Only Wheel Profile

Testing Out New Technology What’s in the pipeline? Using Thermal Imaging Cameras to find Hot Wheels/Hot Bearings Acoustic monitoring for locomotive bearings Machine Vision for coupler securement

Thermal Wheel Imaging – Prototype Hot Wheel Hot Bearing

Thermal Wheel Imaging – Prototype

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