MxV Rail R&D

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Front Row Seat to Rail Innovation’s Future

RAILWAY AGE, SEPTEMBER 2025 ISSUE: The global rail research community will converge this November in Colorado Springs, Colo., for Rail Research Week 2025, a landmark event featuring the first-ever joint gathering of the International Heavy Haul Association (IHHA) and the World Congress on Railway Research (WCRR).

(Bruce Kelly Photograph)

Damage Prevention Impact Tests

MxV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE JULY 2025 ISSUE: Under the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Strategic Research Initiatives Program, MxV Rail and its Damage Prevention & Loading Services (DP&LS) group conducted a series

Coupled railcars and end hoses. (MxV Rail Image)

Analysis of AHS-Caused UDEs

RAILWAY AGE JULY 2024 ISSUE: MxV Rail conducted an in-depth analysis of air hose separation (AHS) incidents using service interruption reports, locomotive event recorder downloads and infrastructure databases from a Class I railroad.

Photo by William Beecher
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MxV Rail R&D: Railcar Draft System Modeling

RAILWAY AGE, NOVEMBER 2023 ISSUE: Under the Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) Program, MxV Rail and the End-of-Car (EOC) Energy Management Task Force of the AAR’s Equipment Engineering Committee (EEC) are developing a combined testing and modeling approach to evaluate draft system performance.