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OBTAINING TRACK GRADE AND CURVE INFORMATION FROM AERIAL SURVEY DATA Louis T Klauder Jr. Track Shape Use, LLC 833 Galer Dr. Newtown Square, PA 19073, USA lklauder@ KEYWORDS: railroad track, curve, spiral, geometry, alignment, grade, vertical curve, survey ABSTRACT For several years Amtrak has had excellent aerial survey based 3-dimensional data giving track centerline coordinates at approximately 5.0 meter intervals along all of its surface tracks. Software has recently been developed for relatively optimal and automated analysis of the track coordinate data to obtain vertical curves, grade lines, and horizontal curves that provide good fits to the coordinate data. This paper describes the manner in which Track Shape Use LLC is processing track coordinate data for Amtrak, discusses some of the challenges that have been encountered, and provides examples of the results. INTRODUCTION In a paper (Klauder, 2004) presented at Railway Engineering – 2004 (the previous meeting of this conference) the author described a procedure for fitting either traditional or improved spiral geometry to existing track shapes with emphasis on track shapes inferred from offsets measured by tamping machines and on use of the fitted geometry for control of tamping. After reviewing the material in that paper, some engineers at Amtrak (the organization that operates most of the intercity passenger trains in the United States) asked whether the software used to obtain curve radii and spiral transition points for control of tamping might be used to obtain similar information from a large body of track centerline coordinate data that Amtrak had obtained for all of its tracks visible from the air