RTR 4/2010 47 InnoTrans – Even more railway than ever before! for rail-based systems and its first-class service-focused cooperation. That, however, did not prevent H.F. Wiebe from using the space assigned to it in the outdoor exhibition to build up an impressive head of steam with the 0-4-0 tank engine “Emma” originally built in 1925 by Hanomag in Hannover-Linden – a “blast from the past” to the delight of its customers and all InnoTrans visitors (Fig. 15). We finish with a glimpse at tradition and progress combined: The well-known permanent-way engineering company of H.F. Wiebe GmbH & Co. KG received an award as an excellent supplier in the “technical components” category from Deutsche Bahn at InnoTrans 2010 on account of its outstanding all-in offers for the construction of infrastructure installations A company called Rittal manufactures individual train-protection cabinets and housings. These were on display in the outdoor exhibition area, installed, for instance, in Siemens’ Vectron and Alstom’s Prima II locomotives. Rittal also supplies a fuel-cell system, called RiCell Flex, which can be used as an emergency power backup and is suitable for railway signalling and safety equipment. This system has a modular structure and can be scaled flexibly between 2.5 and 50 kW. 5 Permanent-way technology ThyssenKrupp GfT Gleistechnik GmbH presented a further-developed “Y” steel sleeper for axle loads of up to 41 tonnes. Thyssen-Krupp sees major potential for this item especially on the American continent, in Australia and in Africa. It also showed a design idea for an unconventional type of slab track. This has prefabricated longitudinal concrete beams under the rails. These beams rest on transverse blocks that dissipate the loads acting on them to deeper layers in the ground through bored or injected piles. Rail.One has been working with DB Netz’s permanent-way materials works in Witten, Germany, to develop a divided concrete sleeper for points that simply folds in two for transport purposes (Fig. 13). These sleepers can be transported on normal flat wagons, a section at a time, to construction sites. The grinding of rail heads with hand-held devices is going to be even simpler in future. Robel Baumaschinen GmbH presented a more advanced version of its rail-head profile grinder, the 13.48 (Fig. 14). The company has set itself the development targets of improved performance, less wear and better ergonomics. Fig. 14: Robel’s new rail-head grinding machine Fig. 15: H.F.Wiebe creating a fine head of steam with “Emma” (Photo: Jänsch) $ ' ! '%&$ %% '$ ( &) $ ! ! " $ ' ((( $ ' ! ((( &"# " $ " 3WISS QUALITY FOR GLOBAL WHEEL RAIL MANAGEMENT )(-+)& 1,- ' 1 ' % , -)* )! + $& -+ -' (- , ! )+ (1 + $& # -+ -' (- 1). ( 0* +$ ( , ).- **&$ -$)( +$ -$)( ) $!$ + . +$ -$)( )(-+)& 1,- ' "+ &. 1).+ )- & +/$ , +)/$ + !)+ + $& # -+ -' (- - ( , ., - (() + (, $( && ))-#
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