EFB Welding

Fixed Location Welding

Joint Elimination & Defect Removal

ONE’s Joint Elimination & Defect Removal services provide customers with the industry leading solution to CWR maintenance      

Cut & Slide
 

Do you have jointed rail that you need to upgrade to CWR, but don’t want to relay it with new rail? ONE’s Cut & Slide (also known as Crop & Weld) services might be your solution. ONE provides a turnkey solution for turning existing jointed rail into CWR.

 

 

Destress Welding
 

ONE’s De-Stressing service provides customers yet another solution for CWR maintenance. Over time the neutral rail temperature of existing CWR can change due to freight tonnage, changes in surface profile, and elastic properties of railroad rails.

Turnout Welding

ONE is currently manufacturing its first all-purpose road/rail EFB welding machine. The Optimus Welder is a mobile unit equipped with ONE’s 100-Ton welding head, 160-Ton rail puller, with all standard welding capabilities.

Turnkey Welding Services

When an Electric Flash-Butt Welding program is required but the additional manpower associated with the project is a concern, ONE Rail can provide a Turn-Key Welding Crew. We can provide turn-key crews for Cut & Slide, Rail Treatment, Turn-outs, Fixed-Point Destressing, Repair, and Roller Line – CWR programs

Rail Gangs/Curve Patch

ONE can provide two or three-man electric Flash-Butt welding crews for rail relay and curve patch programs.  A two-man crew includes an EFB Welder, Rail Puller, Operator and helper.  The three-man crew adds a finish grinder with a hi-rail support truck.

 

In Track Welding

Joint Elimination/Repair Welding

Cut and Slide

Rail Insert® Welding

Destress Welding

Turnout Welding

Turnkey Welding Services

Rail Gangs/Curve Patch

Fixed Location Welding

Roller Line

The Roller line program is a process where EFB Welding is used to create CWR from stick rail. Rail is loaded onto rail rollers and pulled down to each station where the polishing of rail webs, welding, and the rough and finish grinding occur. CWR can be created into custom lengths per job specifications. ONE provides this as a turnkey service, including all rail handling equipment and rail rollers, or as a custom crew from a size ranging from 2-men and the ONE Welder to custom size crews to include finish grinding, web polishing, and various a la carte additional services.

Porta Plant

ONE’s Porta Plant set-up is ideal for shorter term projects, typically less than two years, where sticks of rail are welded into CWR. The line is set-up for maximum efficiency and productivity with capabilities of producing 10 welds per hour. Electric Rollers, tables, Pushers or RPMs are utilized for added efficiency.

Rail Treatment

ONE’s Rail Treatment program can be completed in-track or out-of-track. Relay CWR or stick rail is reconditioned by removing plant welds, thermite welds, joint bar holes, or any other defect. The conditioned rail is then Electric Flash-Butt welded together to manufacture customized CWR lengths.

Fixed Plant

ONE’s Fixed Plant set-up is used to satisfy long-term, lower-cost, CWR needs. Fixed plants are set-up for maximum productivity by incorporating more infrastructure and equipment to automate and expedite various welding line processes. Some of the fixed-plant options include automated polishing, finish grinding, air-quenching, 4-way presses, and use welding heads that are tied into 480V land-power for fast, stable, and consistent EFB welds. Additionally, larger gantry cranes are implemented for quicker turns on flat car unloading, faster line loading, and much larger rail stockpiling capacity. Combined with automated movement of rails through the welding facility, Fixed-Plants typically offer the highest daily welding capacity of any welding program implementation. ONE can also set up a Fixed-Plant to process previously worn (PW) rail. In this scenario, the footprint is modified to include a rail head-wear classification area, cropping station, moveable preparatory implements to manage various rail lengths, and options for in-line UT testing, so ONE can provide fully processed, full length CWR strings of PW rail that are pushed on to your rail train, and ready for immediate installation at your next project location.

Roller Line

Porta Plant

Fixed Plant

Rail Treatment

Joint Elimination & Defect Removal

ONE’s Joint Elimination & Defect Removal services provide customers with the industry leading solution to CWR maintenance. This service entails finding locations of existing joints, rail defects, bad thermite welds, or other conditions picked up by ultrasonic testing, saw-cutting and removing the undesirable rail condition, installing a plug-rail, performing a “head-weld” on the first end of the plug-rail, and a “closure-weld” on the second end using our 160-Ton external rail puller to restore your CWR back to the preferred rail laying temperature. With a well-planned program and available plug-rails, locations can be completed and restored to defect-free CWR in under 90-minutes.

Cut & Slide

Do you have jointed rail that you need to upgrade to CWR, but don’t want to relay it with new rail? ONE’s Cut & Slide (also known as Crop & Weld) services might be your solution. ONE provides a turnkey solution for turning existing jointed rail into CWR. The turnkey consist will cut out all existing joints, slide the rails down, EFB weld the rail ends, finishing grind, thermally adjust, spike and anchor the rail leaving you with rail-life extending CWR. This eliminates joint-tie defects, the need for constant joint bar inspections, makes maintaining surface profile more efficient, and increases track speed. It also is substantially more cost effective than a rail relay program, as seed-rails (to fill accumulated gaps created from cropping joints) and additional spikes and anchors are the only materials a customer needs to purchase to upgrade their rail to CWR. Jointed rail maintenance costs decrease while revenues increase due to increased rail traffic speeds.

Destress Welding

ONE’s De-Stressing service provides customers yet another solution for CWR maintenance. Over time the neutral rail temperature of existing CWR can change due to freight tonnage, changes in surface profile, and elastic properties of railroad rails. This could potentially culminate in heat-kinks, pull-a parts, and other high derailment risk conditions. Further, during heavy tie exchange programs, loosing the lateral holding force provided by crossties when they are removed can cause the rail to kink out from under a production crew. De-stressing services provides a solution by making saw-cuts in the rail near fixed points, at the bottom of descending grades, ahead of curves, and at regular intervals in tangent track, removing anchors to allow the rail to reach a neutral state, calculating the amount of rail that needs to be removed to restore preferred rail laying temperature, removing the requisite rail, and EFB welding the rail to restore CWR. This leaves behind rail that has the proper tension to prevent heat-kinks and reduces lateral forces on the track structure.

Turnout Welding

ONE is currently manufacturing its first all-purpose road/rail EFB welding machine. The Optimus Welder is a mobile unit equipped with ONE’s 100-Ton welding head, 160-Ton rail puller, with all standard welding capabilities.

Turnkey Welding Services

When an Electric Flash-Butt Welding program is required but the additional manpower associated with the project is a concern, ONE Rail can provide a Turn-Key Welding Crew.  We can provide turn-key crews for Cut & Slide, Rail Treatment, Turn-outs, Fixed-Point Destressing, Repair, and Roller Line – CWR programs.  We can build any size consist to fit the project requirements. Ordering a turnkey package will include the manpower and equipment to handle all the trackwork that is associated with welding, such as rail handling, re-stressing of the rail, spiking, and anchoring.

Rail Gangs/Curve Patch

ONE can provide two or three-man electric Flash-Butt welding crews for rail relay and curve patch programs.  A two-man crew includes an EFB Welder, Rail Puller, Operator and helper.  The three-man crew adds a finish grinder with a hi-rail support truck.

Roller Line

The Roller line program is a process where EFB Welding is used to create CWR from stick rail. Rail is loaded onto rail rollers and pulled down to each station where the polishing of rail webs, welding, and the rough and finish grinding occur. CWR can be created into custom lengths per job specifications. ONE provides this as a turnkey service, including all rail handling equipment and rail rollers, or as a custom crew from a size ranging from 2-men and the ONE Welder to custom size crews to include finish grinding, web polishing, and various a la carte additional services.

Porta Plant

ONE’s Porta Plant set-up is ideal for shorter term projects, typically less than two years, where sticks of rail are welded into CWR. The line is set-up for maximum efficiency and productivity with capabilities of producing 10 welds per hour. Electric Rollers, tables, Pushers or RPMs are utilized for added efficiency.

Rail Treatment

ONE’s Rail Treatment program can be completed in-track or out-of-track. Relay CWR or stick rail is reconditioned by removing plant welds, thermite welds, joint bar holes, or any other defect. The conditioned rail is then Electric Flash-Butt welded together to manufacture customized CWR lengths. 

Fixed Plant

ONE’s Fixed Plant set-up is used to satisfy long-term, lower-cost, CWR needs. Fixed plants are set-up for maximum productivity by incorporating more infrastructure and equipment to automate and expedite various welding line processes. Some of the fixed-plant options include automated polishing, finish grinding, air-quenching, 4-way presses, and use welding heads that are tied into 480V land-power for fast, stable, and consistent EFB welds. Additionally, larger gantry cranes are implemented for quicker turns on flat car unloading, faster line loading, and much larger rail stockpiling capacity. Combined with automated movement of rails through the welding facility, Fixed-Plants typically offer the highest daily welding capacity of any welding program implementation. ONE can also set up a Fixed-Plant to process previously worn (PW) rail. In this scenario, the footprint is modified to include a rail head-wear classification area, cropping station, moveable preparatory implements to manage various rail lengths, and options for in-line UT testing, so ONE can provide fully processed, full length CWR strings of PW rail that are pushed on to your rail train, and ready for immediate installation at your next project location.