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Industry Organizations

  • AAR Open Top Loading Rules (OTLR) Committee
  • Air Brake Association (ABA)
  • American Railroad Association (ARA)
  • American Railway Association (ARA)
  • American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA)
  • Association of American Railroads (AAR)
  • Association Of Car Accounting and Car Services Officers (ACACSO)
  • Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC)
  • Car Department Officers Association
  • Chief Interchange Car Inspectors’ and Car Foremen’s Association
  • Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
  • Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)
  • Master Car Builders’ Association (MCB)
  • Mechanical Association Railcar Technical Services (MARTS)
  • Operation Lifesaver
  • Railcar Technical Services Association (RTSA)
  • Railinc
  • Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
  • Railway Car Department Officers’ Association
  • Surface Transportation Board (STB)
  • Transport Canada (TC)
  • Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI)

Gauge Usage

  • Coupler Gauging: Coupler Contour
  • Truck Gauging: Friction Casting Rise
  • Truck Gauging: Pedestal Wear
  • Wheel Gauging: Rim
  • Wheel Gauging: Tread Wear & Damage
  • Wheel Gauging: Wheel Flange
  • Wheelset Gauging: Back to Back

Tools & Equipment

  • Chocks
  • End Of Train Device (EOT/EOTD)
  • Flashing Rear End Device (FRED)

Part Reference

  • Air Brake System
  • Automatic Equipment Identification (AEI) Tags
  • Axle
  • Bolster Bowl Shim
  • Brake Beam Unit Guide Wear Liner
  • Brake Shoe
  • Center Pin
  • Constant Contact Side Bearing (CCSB)
  • Coupler
  • Coupler Carrier Wear Plate
  • Draft Sill
  • Draft Stop
  • Drawbar
  • Hand Brake
  • Horizontal Wear Liner
  • Knuckle
  • Knuckle Thrower
  • Lock Lifter
  • Multi-Unit Cable (MU Cable)
  • Pedestal Wear Liner
  • Roller Bearing Adapter
  • Sideframe
  • Truck
  • Truck Bolster
  • Vertical Wear Liner
  • Wheelset
  • Y47 Pin
  • Yoke

Railroad Terminology

  • Broken
  • Buff Load
  • Car Builder
  • Car Knocker
  • Car Repair Billing
  • Carmen
  • Class Code
  • Classification Yard
  • Cracked
  • Derailment
  • Drawbar-Connected Car
  • Equipment ID
  • Hump Yard
  • Idler Car
  • Interchange
  • Interchange Point
  • Intermodal Chassis
  • Line-Haul
  • Locomotive Speed Limiter (LSL)
  • Multi-Unit Car
  • Rail Burn
  • Railroad Retirement
  • Reporting Marks
  • Restencil
  • Retarder
  • Road Marks
  • Shove
  • Single Car Air Brake Test (SCABT)
  • Slack
  • Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC)
  • Standard Point Location Code (SPLC)
  • Switch
  • Undesired Emergency (UDE)

Rolling Stock

  • Articulated Car
  • Autorack
  • Star Code Stencil
  • Track Geometry Car
  • Wheel Flat Car

Publications

  • AAR Circular Letter
  • AAR Intermodal Trailer and Container Securement Manual
  • AAR Manual of Standards and Recommended Practices (MSRP)
  • AAR Open Top Loading Rules
  • AAR Organizations and Activities (1939)
  • AAR Railroad Classifications
  • Annual Report of the Director General of Railroads – 1919
  • Field Manual of AAR Interchange Rules
  • Motive Power and Equipment (MP&E) Compliance Manual
  • Office Manual of AAR Interchange Rules
  • Office of Railroad Safety (RRS) General Manual
  • Proceedings of the American Railroad Association (11/19/1919)
  • Proceedings of the American Railroad Association Mechanical Section (1919)
  • STB Railroad Classifications

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