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AREMA. 2011. Manual for Railway Engineering, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association, Lanham, MD. 

American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA). Manual of Railway Engineering. Washington, D.C. American Railway Engineering Association. A compilation of U.S. railway standards covering all aspects of the civil engineering of rail transport. 

Three complementary annual publications from the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance Association (AREMA) serve as primary railroad engineering reference materials ... 

American Railway Engineering and Maintenance Association http //www.arana.org/ (accessed September 3,2010). Beginning in 1998, these proceedings superseded the AREA Proceedings. Produced by the Communications and Signals and the Tracks and Structures Committees, they contain all technical papers presented at the annual conference and committee reports. The American Railway Engineering Association (AREA) published... 

The diagrams in Figure 5-21 illustrate the results of actual load testing on both types of conduit by the Roadway Conunittee of the American Railway Engineering Association at an installation near Farina, Illinois. Both the flexible and the rigid pipes were buried under thirty-five feet of identical fill material. Obviously, specific pressures vary from installation to installation, but the relationship in the way the two kinds of pipe react to the same burial condition generally remains constant. 

Among pioneers in studying the effects of corrosion was the American Committee on Electrolysis, which noted in 1921 that its preliminary report had been published in October, 1916. This committee, composed of representatives of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Electric Railway Association, American Railway Engineering Association, National Bureau of Standards, and others, concerned itself with the then serious problem of stray current damage to underground metal structures, especially the protection of communication cable from electrified street and interurban railways. 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) http //www.asme.org/ (accessed September 13, 2010). ASME s Rail Transportation Division (RTD) focuses on intercity freight and passenger railroads as well as rail rapid transit. RTD is a partner in the annual lEEE/ASME Joint Rail Conference, which focuses on innovation in railway mechanical and electrical engineering. 

ASCE s Infrastructure Report Card for America s Infrastructure http //www.infrastructur-ereportcard.org/ (accessed March 24, 2011). Since 1988, the American Society of Civil Engineers has been evaluating the state of infrastructure in the United States. These report cards cover such areas as bridges, dams, drinking water, levees, railways, and roads. Summaries of these report cards are available online. 

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