Finding a Flat Spot on a Freight Car Wheel plus the Rails are Singing

Watch an EB loaded coal train thru curve 15 and listen to what a flat spot sounds
like at track speed (25 MPH).  Listen to the rails singing thru this 8 degree curve. Then we show you how to find the flat spot on the car truck set and what it looks like on the car wheel.
Some folks call truck sets simply trucks and our across the ocean friends call them
bogies.

According to Code Federal Regulations Title 49,  215.103, a defective wheel concerning
flat spots is one that has a slid flat or shelled spot that is more than 2 1/2 inches in
length: or two or more adjoining flat or shelled spots each of which is more than
2 inches in length.  There are many other specs for defective wheels, but the above
is what it says only about flat spots.

Operator is on the other side of the cars and moving the train via remote in the second
part of this video.

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