With railroad budgets holding steady and raw material prices rising, manufacturers of diamonds, turnouts and other special trackwork continue to find better designs, tougher materials and improved products to extend service life without increasing maintenance costs.rnCleveland Track Material, Inc., is now part of Vossloh AG, but still operates facilities in Cleveland, Ohio, Memphis, Tenn., and Reading, Penn.rnThe current CTM product line includes all types of special trackwork for the transit and Class 1 markets: Panelized and pre-plated and packaged turnouts, slip switches, lap switches, crossings, frogs, guard rails, bridge joints, joint bars and compromise joint bars. The company now has the capability to provide European (UIC) designs of trackwork, including asymmetrical switches, movable point frogs and flash butt-welded manganese frogs.
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