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Everything written on this blog represents an individual and personal opinion, as engineer and teacher. This blog is intended to be a way to share and exchange knowledge and opinions about various topics related to railway track.

Although supported by many other sources, a major part of the information presented here is based on the the Railway Track Courses taught at the Faculty of Railways, Roads and Bridges of the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (TUCE B). 

The author wishes to express his most sincere gratitude to all the TUCEB professors and colleagues, especially to Mr Professor Dr Eng Constantin Radu, a passionate teacher, an exigent mentor and a very dear friend.

The content displayed here shouldn’t be considered in any way and at any time, the official position of the company/institution the author works (or worked) for.

Also, the content of any post is considered to be right at the time of posting, justified by engineering judgement and bibliographical references.
The reader is welcomed to use engineering critical thinking, to personally check the information found here and debate politely, using the comment option.

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Everything presented here is generally based on the author’s Railway teacher experience at the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest and is a synthesis research work undertaken by the author from various railway engineering sources, quoted in the references section of each article.

The readers are welcomed to use for their individual professional development any information presented here and kindly asked to acknowledge this blog as their source or, at least, the original references used to produce the blog articles.

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The author does not accept that any of the blog’s articles to be used without specific written consent for producing any kind of documentation that has a direct or indirect pecuniary outcome.