Transpo BODAN® Full Video

BODAN® HIghway/Railroad Grade crossing system is a unique precast reinforced polymer concrete railway crossing system used for highway/rail crossings.

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Unlike other crossings, BODAN® does not rely on railroad ties for attachment or support.The modular design allows for easy removal to perform routine track inspection and maintenance.

Accessible: No lag bolts needed, the modular panels bridge to the rails

Easy: Panels can be removed for routine track maintenance

Strong: Steel reinforcements support HS 25 traffic loads

Safe: High-friction granular surfacing material provides a skid-resistant surface

Durable: Modular precast polymer concrete impervious to salt, diesel fuel and moisture

Unique: Only system with optional imbedded LED warning lights

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• RR grade crossing
• rail crossing
• crossing safety
• pavement warning lights
• crossing surface
• track gauge panel
• highway crossings
• flangeway filler
• track maintenance
• railroad warning lights
• railroad safety

[gailgrove]

@gailgrove The weight of the 300 ton locomotive will simply crush it into the ground if it has to, I have never heard of a train derailing because of ice build up.

[robertgift]

@gailgrove You need to learn a little physics.

If material has no place to go and can not move quickly enough, the wheel can ride up anderail.

I have seen engines which derailed at grade crossings from ice and debris in the flangeway.

[gailgrove]

@robertgift The train would sooner crush the concrete than derail.

[robertgift]

@gailgrove Wrong. Water can melt and with snow or ice obstructing the flangeway, fill the flangway.

Then the water can freeze hard.

When no space for the ice to spread out into as the flange knifes through the ice, the flange can ride up on the ice and over the railhead.

This why backing cars or engines can derail at grade crossings.

[gailgrove]

@robertgift NEWS FLASH: a little bit of ice in a crossing is not going to derail a 10,000 ton train!

[robertgift]

What happens when ice forms in the flangeway.

Nowhere for it to go. Derails train.

You need to create a chamber to allow wheel flanges to force ice away from the rail.

LED lights are a stupid expensive worthless novelty.